INFLUENCE. Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself. 2765 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. III. Pursuits. Those who wish to lead a good life ought to have genuine friends or red-hot enemies; for the former deterred you from what was wrong by reproof, the latter, by abuse. 2766 Antisthenes: Plutarch's Morals. How a Man Sec. 5. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. 2767 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Influence is to be measured not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind. 2768 William Ellery Channing: Self-Culture. (Address, Boston, Mass., September, 1838.) Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. 2769 Emerson Essays. Politics. The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later. 2770 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Culture. There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. 2771 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Power. Continual dropping wears away stones. 2772 Benjamin Franklin: Address to Poor Richard's You can only make others better by being good yourself. Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from; and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. 2774 Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast- It is a beautiful thing to model a statue and give it life; to mould an intelligence and instill truth therein is still more beautiful. 2775 Victor Hugo: Ninety-Three. Pt. ii. Bk. i. Ch. 3. (Benedict, Translator.) 1 From the Latin, Gutta cavat lapidem non vi sed säepe cadendo: A drop hollows out a stone, not by its force, but by its frequent falling. INFLUENCE - INGENUOUSNESS. 279 It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free. 2776 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. III. 205, n. 4. (George Birkbeck Hill, Editor, (1887.) Neither our virtues nor vices are all our own. 2777 Johnson: The Rambler. No. 180. It exalteth a man from earthly things to love those that are heavenly. 2778 Thomas à Kempis: Imitation of Christ. Bk. iii. In this world a man must be either a hammer or an anvil. 2779 Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. iv. Ch. 7. Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world. 2780 John Selden: Table Talk. Pope. Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent. An' I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse: the inside of a church! Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. 2781 Shakespeare: King Henry IV. Pt. i. Act iii. Sc. 3. The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive, and leave an indelible stamp upon his race. 2782 Samuel Smiles: Character. Ch. 1. Though her (Lady Elizabeth Hastings) mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her was a liberal education. 2783 Sir Richard Steele: The Tatler. No. 49. The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fibre; every mind is at times no less sensitive to the most trifling words. 2784 Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur. Bk. iv. Ch. 11. They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each word in answer may prove to the after-life what each finger-touch of the artist is to the clay he is modelling. 2785 INGENUOUSNESS. Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur. Bk. ii. Ch. 4. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching. 2786 Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. INGRATITUDE. The wicked are always ungrateful. 2787 Cervantes: Don Quixote. Pt. i. Bk. iii. Ch. 23. (Jarris, Translator.) The man is ungrateful who denies that he has received a benefit, who pretends that he has not received it, and who does not return it. 2788 Cicero: On Benefits. Bk. iii. Ch. 1. (Stewart, Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude. 2789 Shakespeare: Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3. INNKEEPER - see Inns. Though I am an innkeeper, thank Heaven I am a Christian. 2790 Cervantes: Don Quixote. Pt. i. Bk. iv. Ch. 32. (Jarvis, Translator.) INNOCENCE. Innocence is plain, direct, and simple; guilt is a crooked, intricate, inconstant, and various thing. 2791 Burke: Speech, Feb. 15, 1788. Impeachment of Innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression. 2792 Innocence can return to all with repentance. James Fenimore Cooper: Jack Tier. Ch. 10. O Innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties. 2794 Fielding: Amelia. Bk. iv. Ch. 5. To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the greatest prerogative of innocence: an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. 2795 Johnson: The Rambler. No. 68. An innocent man needs no eloquence; his innocence is instead of it. 2796 Ben Jonson: Timber: or, Discoveries made upon Men and Matter. To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. 2797 Ouida: Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos. Two Little INNS - see Innkeeper, Taverns. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. 2798 INSANITY. Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. 1776. (Routledge edition, Vol. ii. Ch. 14.) All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. INSINCERITY. Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity. 2800 Cicero: Offices. Bk. i. Ch. 42. (Edmonds, Trans.) Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation. 2801 Hawthorne: American Note-Books. Dec. 6, 1837. It is a shameful and unseemly thing to think one thing and to speak another, but how odious to write one thing and to think another. 2802 Seneca: Works. Epistles. No. 23. (Thomas A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning. 2804 Victor Hugo: Ninety-Three. Pt. iii. Bk. ii. Ch. 1. (Benedict, Translator.) 2805 Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. INSTRUCTORS. The teacher, like the poet, must be born, and then born again; for the spirit must quicken the spirit, and life inspire life, before knowledge can grow to wisdom; and wisdom, set on fire with love, can lift the world to Him who is "the truth and the life." 2806 Alice E. Freeman: MS. Men in teaching others, learn themselves. 2807 Seneca: Works. Epistles. No. 7. (Thomas INSULTS. The way to procure insults is to submit to them. meets with no more respect than he exacts. 2808 INTEGRITY. A man Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 402. The march of the human mind is slow. 2810 Burke: Speech, March 22, 1775. On Conciliation with America. Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here. 2811 Hartley Coleridge: Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. Introduction. Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. 2812 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Fate. Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver. 2813 Emerson: Representative Men. Plato. The intellect is like glass; it admits the light of heaven, and reflects it. 2814 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates. 2815 Moses Harvey: Lectures, Literary and Biographical. Knowledge is Power. Our brains are seventy year clocks. The angel of life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of the resurrection. 2816 Holmes: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Great minds do, indeed, re-act on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received. 2817 Macaulay Essays. John Dryden. The march of intellect. (Edinburgh Southey: Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. The Doctor. Ch., Extraordinary. There is no creature so lonely as the dweller in the intellect. 2819 William Winter: The Stage Life of Mary Anderson. Galatea and Clarice. |