, sometimes fatal. It is a
torch or a fire-brand according to the use one makes of it.--_Fernan
Caballero._

~Intemperance.~--The body, overcharged with the excess of yesterday,
weighs down the mind together with itself, and fixes to the earth that
particle of the divine spirit.--_Horace._

Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty.--_Junius._

~Intolerance.~--Nothing dies so hard, and rallies so often, as
intolerance.--_Beecher._

Intolerance is the curse of every age and state.--_Dr. Davies._

~Invective.~--Invective may be a sharp weapon, but over-use blunts its
edge. Even when the denunciation is just and true, it is an error of art
to indulge in it too long.--_Tyndall._

~Invention.~--Invention is a kind of muse, which, being possessed of the
other advantages common to her sisters, and being warmed by the fire of
Apollo, is raised higher than the rest.--_Dryden._

Invention, strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of
those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the
memory. Nothing can be made of nothing: he who has laid up no materials
can produce no combinations.--_Sir J. Reynolds._

~Irony.~--Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar;
and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say
it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can
invent.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Irresolution.~--Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that
shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all
can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like
an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once
in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so
hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions.--_Feltham._

Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our
choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all
our unhappiness.--_Addison._

Irresolute people let their soup grow cold between the plate and the
mouth.--_Cervantes._

~Irritability.~--Irritability urges us to take a step as much too soon as
sloth does too late.--_Cecil._

An irritable man lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way,
tormenting himself with his own prickles.--_Hood._

~Ivy.~--The stateliest building man can raise is the ivy's food at
last.--_Dickens._

The ivy, like the spider, takes hold with her hands in king's palaces,
as every twig is fur