INSTRUCTION
(See Education, Teaching)
INSULT
Qui se laisse outrag er, merite qu'on l'outrage
Et Paudace impunie enfle trap un courage.
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases!
No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
Goethe—Torquato Tasso. III. 3. 191.
Quid facies tibi,
Injuria: qui addideris contumeliam?
What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast
added insult to injury?
Phædrus—Fables. V. 3. 4.
Contumeliam si dices, audies.
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
Plautus—Pseudolus. Act IV. 7. 77.
Saepe satius fuit dissimulare quam ulcisci.
It is often better not to see an insult than
to avenge it.
Seneca—De Ira. II. 32.
INTELLECT
The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
Michael Angelo—The Artist. Longfellow's trans.
In short, intelligence, considered in what seems
to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to
make tools, and of indefinitely urging the
manufacture.
Henri Bergson—Creative Evolution,. Ch. II.
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and
even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and
using unorganized instruments.
Henri Bergson—Creative Evolution. Ch. II.
For the eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of
seeing."
Carlyle—Varnhagen Von Erne's Memoirs.
London and Westminster Review. 1838.
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous
in every expansion. The mind that grows
could not predict the times, the means, the
mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a
private door into every individual.
Emerson—Essays. Intellect.
'Tis good-will makes intelligence.
Emerson—The Titmouse. L. 65.
Works of the intellect are great only by
comparison with each other. ,
Emerson—Literary Ethics.
Thou living ray of intellectual fire. '
Falconer—The Shipwreck. Canto t. . L. 104.
Glorious indeed is the world of God around
us, but more glorious the world of God within
us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies
the poet's native land.
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed
upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are
thrown away at a street corner. The fragments
of an intellect are always good.
George Sand—Handsome Lawrence. Ch.H.
The march of intellect.
Southey—Sir Thos. More; or, Colloquies on the
Progress and Prospects of Society. Vol. II.
P. 361.
The intellectual power, through words and
things,
Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!
Wordsworth—Excursion. Bk. III.
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous
way.
Wordsworth—Borderers. Written eighteen years before Excursion.
INTEMPERENCE
(See also Drinking, Wine)
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation
Which rises from the cup of mad impiety,
And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication
Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
Wm. R. Alger—Oriental Poetry. The Sober
Drunkenness.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication:
Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk
The hopes of all men and of every nation;
Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk
Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion:
But to return,—Get very drunk; and when
You wake with headache, you shall see what
then.
Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentia effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.
A sensual and intemperate youth hands
over a worn-out body to old age.
Cicero—De Senectute. EX.
Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop
appears,
As the red waves of wretchedness swell,
How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years
The horrible Light-House of Hell!
M'Donald Clarke—The Rum Hole.
All learned, and all drunk!
Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.
