~Indulgence.~--One wishes to be happy before becoming wise.--_Mme.
Necker._
~Industry.~--Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the
gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the
purchaser.--_Addison._
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the
harvest we must sow the seed.--_Bailey._
~Infidelity.~--There is but one thing without honor; smitten with eternal
barrenness, inability to do or to be,--insincerity, unbelief. He who
believes no _thing_, who believes only the shows of things, is not in
relation with nature and fact at all.--_Carlyle._
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied
to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief; in which the panting breast
expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.--_Richter._
If on one side there are fair proofs, and no pretense of proof on the
other, and that the difficulties are more pressing on that side which is
destitute of proof, I desire to know whether this be not upon the matter
as satisfactory to a wise man as a demonstration.--_Tillotson._