te empire; our ordinary
life borders upon it, and we cross the frontier in some part of our
nature.--_Taine._

~Inspiration.~--Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble
impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the
mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best
deeds are all given to us.--_George Eliot._

Contagious enthusiasm.--_Mrs. Balfour._

~Instinct.~--The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of
nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living
agent.--_Newton._

Instinct harmonizes the interior of animals as religion does the
interior of men.--_Jacobi._

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens
and kills them.--_Aime Martin._

An instinct is a propensity prior to experience, and independent of
instruction.--_Paley._

~Insult.~--It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves
insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society do you think
it is taken as an insult?--_Lady Hester Stanhope._

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the
man who has forgiven an insult.--_Charles Buxton._

~Insurrection.~--Insurrection unusually gains little; usually wastes how
much! One of its worst kind of wastes, to say nothing of the rest, is
that of irritating and exasperating men against each other by violence
done; which is always sure to be injustice done, for violence does even
justice unjustly.--_Carlyle._

~Intellect.~--The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small
retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant
trades, he links the four quarters of the globe.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Intelligence.~--The higher feelings, when acting in harmonious
combination, and directed by enlightened intellect, have a boundless
scope for gratification; their least indulgence is delightful, and their
highest activity is bliss.--_Combe._

Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their
closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated
courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far
removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober
light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which
incessantly disturb that restless world of waters.--_Colton._

Light has spread, and even bayonets think.--_Kossuth._

Intelligence is a luxury, sometimes useless