~Impatience.~--Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the
plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and
sorrow to amazement.--_Jeremy Taylor._
~Impossibility.~--One great difference between a wise man and a fool is,
the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter
desires impossibilities.--_Democritus._
~Improvement.~--Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is
advancing. Advance with it.--_Mazzini._
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to
copy after.--_Goldsmith._
~Improvidence.~--How full or how empty our lives, depends, we say, on
Providence. Suppose we say, more or less on improvidence.--_Bovee._
~Income.~--Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and
pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to
trip.--_Colton._
~Inconsistency.~--Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if
they thought there was none: their vows and promises are no more than
words of course.--_L'Estrange._
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's
caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are
transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all
the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.--_George
Eliot._
~Inconstancy.~--The catching court disease.--_Otway._
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and
little in the eyes of the world as inconstancy.--_Addison._
~Indifference.~--Nothing for preserving the body like having no
heart.--_J. Petit Senn._