=Immortality.=

It must be so, Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?

969 ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

Where music dwells Lingering and wandering on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.

970 WORDSWORTH: _Ecclesiastical Sonnets,_ Pt. iii., xliii.

=Impossibility.=

And what's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.

971 COLMAN, JR.: _Maid of the Moor._

=Impudence.=

For he that has but impudence, To all things has a fair pretence; And, put among his wants but shame, To all the world may lay his claim.

972 BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 17.

=Inconstancy.=

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more; Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea, and one on shore; To one thing constant never.

973 SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act ii., Sc. 3, _Song._

There are three things a wise man will not trust-- The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.

974 SOUTHEY: _Madoc,_ Pt. ii., _Caradoc and Senena,_ Line 51.

=Independence.=

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

975 SMOLLETT: _Ode to Independence._

Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!

976 JOSEPH HOPKINSON: _Hail, Columbia!_

=Indifference.=

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba.

977 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

Let ev'ry man enjoy his whim; What's he to me, or I to him?

978 CHURCHILL: _Ghost,_ Bk. iv., Line 215.

=Infancy.=

Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heav'n convey'd, And bade it blossom there.

979 COLERIDGE: _Epitaph on an Infant._

=Infidelity.=

If man loses all, when life is lost, He lives a coward, or a fool expires.

A daring infidel (and such there are, From pride, example, lucre, rage, revenge, Or pure heroical defect of thought,) Of all earth's madmen, most deserves a chain.

980 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night vii., Line 199.

=Influence.=

No life Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

981 OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. ii., Canto vi., St. 40.

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

982 MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 121.

=Ingratitude.=

I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption Inhabits our frail blood.

983 SHAKS.: _Tw. Night,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, Than the sea-monster!

984 SHAKS.: _King Lear,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.

985 SHAKS.: _King Lear,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

=Inhumanity.=

Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn.

986 BURNS: _Man was Made to Mourn._

=Inn.=

Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found, The warmest welcome at an inn.

987 SHENSTONE: _Lines on Window of Inn at Henley._

=Innocence.=

The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails.

988 SHAKS.: _Wint. Tale,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.