Chapter M (25)

=Time is of more value than type, and the wear and tear of temper than an extra page of index.= _R. H. Busk._

=Time is the chrysalis of eternity.= _Jean Paul._

=Time is the life of the soul. If not this, then tell me what is time?= _Longfellow._

=Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires.= _Colton._

=Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.= _Two_ 5 _Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.

=Time is the old Justice that examines all offenders.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.

=Time is the stuff life is made of.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity.= _W. v. Humboldt._

=Time is trouble and the author of destruction; he seizeth even from afar.= _Hitopadesa._

=Time reposes on eternity; the truly great and= 10 =transcendental has its basis and substance in eternity; stands revealed to us as eternity in a vesture of time.= _Carlyle._

=Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: / Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.= _King Lear_, i. 1.

=Time, that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.= _Colton._

=Time the shuttle drives, but you / Give to every thread its hue, / And elect your destiny.= _W. H. Burleigh._

=Time trieth truth.= _Pr._

=Time was when a Christian used to apologise= 15 =for being happy. But the day has always been when he ought to apologise for being miserable.= _Prof. Drummond._

=Time wasted is existence; used, is life.= _Young._

=Time, when well husbanded, is like a cultivated field, of which a few acres produce more of what is useful to life, than extensive provinces, even of the richest soil, when overrun with weeds and brambles.= _Hume._

=Time, which deadens hatred, secretly strengthens love; and in the hour of threatened separation its growth is manifested at once in radiant brightness.= _Jean Paul._

=Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.= _Euripides._

=Time works great changes.= _Pr._ 20

=Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow; / Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.= _Byron._

=Time's best gift to us is serenity.= _Bovee._

=Time's noblest offspring is the last.= _Berkeley._

=Time's the king of men; / He's both their parent and he is their grave, / And gives them what he will, not what they crave.= _Pericles_, ii. 3.

=Time's waters will not ebb nor stay; / Power= 25 =cannot change them, but Love may; / What cannot be, Love counts it done.= _Keble._

=Timely advised, the coming evil shun; / Better not do the deed, than weep it done.= _Prior._

=Timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes=--I distrust the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. _Virg._

=Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds.= _Colton._

=Timet pudorem=--He fears shame. _M._

=Timidi mater non flet=--The mother of the coward 30 has no occasion to weep. _Pr._

=Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus=--The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. _Pub. Syr._

=Timor Domini fons vitæ=--The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life. _M._

=Tinsel reflects the sun, but warms nothing.= _Prof. Drummond._

=Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep! / He, like the world, his ready visit pays / Where Fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes: / Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, / And lights on lids unsullied with a tear.= _Young._

=Tirer le diable par la queue=--To be in great 35 straits (_lit._ to pull the devil by the tail).

=Tirer les marrons du feu avec la patte du chat=--To make a cat's paw of any one (_lit._ to take the chestnuts from the fire with a cat's paw). _La Fontaine._

=Tirez le rideau; la farce est jouée=--Draw the curtain; the farce is played out. _Last words of Rabelais._

='Tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished.= _Ham._, iii. 1.

='Tis a cruelty / To load a falling man.= _Henry VIII._, v. 2.

='Tis a folly to fret; grief's no comfort.= _Pr._ 40

='Tis a good ill that comes alone.= _Pr._

='Tis a kind of good deed to say well: / And yet words are no deeds.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 2.

='Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds on't.= _Winter's Tale_, iii. 3.

='Tis a physic that's bitter to sweet end.= _Meas. for Meas._, iv. 6.

='Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity= 45 =makes the most poets.= _Farquhar._

='Tis a vile thing to die ... / When men are unprepar'd and look not for it.= _Rich. III._, iii. 2.

='Tis all one to be a witch as to be counted one.= _The Witch of Edmonton._

='Tis always a delightful thing to see the human understanding following its imprescriptible rights in spite of all hindrances, and hurrying eagerly towards the utmost possible agreement between ideas and objects.= _Goethe._

='Tis an economy of time to read old and famed books.= _Emerson._

='Tis an old maxim in the schools / That flattery's= 50 =the food of fools; / Yet now and then your men of wit / Will condescend to take a bit.= _Swift._

='Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; / 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired; / 'Tis government that makes them seem divine.= 3 _Hen. VI._, i. 4.

='Tis better to be lowly born, / And range with humble livers in content, / Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, / And wear a golden sorrow.= _Hen. VIII._, ii. 2.

='Tis better to cry over your goods than after them.= _Pr._

='Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.= _Tennyson._

='Tis but a base, ignoble mind / That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.= 2 _Hen. VI._, ii. 1.

='Tis but lame kindness that does its work by halves.= _Blair._

='Tis, by comparison, an easy task / Earth to despise; but to converse with heaven--/ This is not easy.= _Wordsworth._

='Tis certainly much easier for a man to restrain himself from talking at all, than to enter into discourse without saying more than becomes him.= _Thomas à Kempis._

='Tis day still while the sun shines.= _Pr._ 5

='Tis death to me to be at enmity; / I hate it, and desire all good men's love.= _Rich. III._, ii. 1.

='Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, / And robes the mountain in its azure hue.= _Campbell._

='Tis education forms the common mind, / Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.= _Pope._

='Tis ever common that men are merriest when they are from home.= _Hen. V._, i. 2.

='Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; /= 10 =Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.= _Suckling._

='Tis God / Diffused through all that doth make all one whole.= _Coleridge._

='Tis heaven alone that is given away; / 'Tis only God may be had for the asking.= _Lowell._

='Tis impossible you should take true root, but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.= _Much Ado_, i. 3.

='Tis, in fact, utter folly to ask whether a person has anything from himself, or whether he has it from others, whether he operates by himself, or operates by means of others. The main point is to have a great will, and skill and perseverance to carry it out. All else is indifferent.= _Goethe._

='Tis life itself to love.= _Goethe._ 15

='Tis life reveals to each his genuine worth.= _Goethe._

='Tis little we can do for each other.= _Emerson._

='Tis long since death had the majority.= _Blair._

='Tis mad idolatry / To make the service greater than the god.= _Troil. and Cress._, ii. 2.

='Tis my opinion 'tis necessary to be happy,= 20 =that we think no place more agreeable than that where we are.= _Lady Montagu._

='Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.

='Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, / But the joint force and full result of all.= _Pope._

='Tis not always necessary that truth should be embodied; it is sufficient if it hovers about in the spirit, producing harmony; if, like the chime of bells, it vibrates through the air solemnly and kindly.= _Goethe._

='Tis not enough to keep the feeble up, / But to support them after.= _Tim. of Athens_, i. 1.

='Tis not enough when swarming faults are= 25 =writ, / That here and there are scatter'd sparks of wit.= _Dryden._

='Tis not enough your counsel still be true; / Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.= _Pope._

='Tis not in mortals to command success, / But we'll do more, Sempronius--we'll deserve it.= _Addison._

='Tis not prudent, 'tis not well, to meet / With purposed misconception any man, / Let him be who he may.= _Goethe._

='Tis not so above: / There is no shuffling; there the action lies / In its true nature.= _Ham._, iii. 3.

='Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but= 30 =the excess.= _Selden._

='Tis not the whole of life to live, / Nor all of death to die.= _J. Montgomery._

='Tis not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice.= _Montaigne._

='Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do.= _Browning._

='Tis not worth while quarrelling with the world, simply to afford it some amusement.= _Goethe._

='Tis now the very witching time of night, /= 35 =When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out / Contagion to this world.= _Ham._, iii. 2.

='Tis only humanity as a whole that perceives Nature, only men collectively that live the life of man.= _Goethe._

='Tis only in Rome one can duly prepare one's self for Rome.= _Goethe._

='Tis only in the forehead Nature plants the watchful eye; the back, without defence, must find its shield in man's fidelity.= _Schiller._

='Tis only noble to be good; / Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood.= _Tennyson._

='Tis only strict precision of thought that confers= 40 =facility of expression.= _Schiller._

='Tis only woman's womanly beauty that makes a true queen; wherever she appears, and by her mere presence, she asserts her sovereignty.= _Schiller._

='Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; / A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.= _Byron._

='Tis rashness to conclude affairs in a lost condition because some crosses have baulked your expectations.= _Thomas à Kempis._

='Tis said fantastic ocean doth unfold the likeness of whate'er on land is seen.= _Wordsworth._

='Tis said that virtue dwells sublime / On= 45 =rugged cliffs, full hard to climb; / ... But mortal ne'er her form may see, / Unless his restless energy / Breaks forth in sweat that gains the goal, / The perfect manhood of the soul.= _Simonides._

='Tis strange; / And oftentimes to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's, / In deepest consequence.= _Macb._, i. 3.

='Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead, / To know them still alive, / But sweeter if we earn their bread, / And in us they survive.= _Thomson._

='Tis the curse of service; preferment goes by letter and affection, not by the old gradation where each second stood heir to the first.= _Othello_, i. 1.

='Tis the divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / And intimates eternity to man.= _Addison._

='Tis the fate of the noblest soul to sigh vainly= 50 =for a reflection of itself.= _Goethe._

='Tis the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society.= _Emerson._

='Tis the fulness of man that runs over into objects, and makes his Bibles and Shakespeares and Homers so great.= _Emerson._

='Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences, or asides, hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.= _Emerson._

='Tis the mind that makes the body rich; / And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit.= _Tam. of Shrew_, iv. 3.

='Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels.= _Emerson._

='Tis the part of a poor spirit to undervalue= 5 =himself and blush.= _George Herbert._

='Tis the same to him who wears a shoe as if the whole earth were thatched with leather.= _Persian Pr._

='Tis the sublime of man, / Our noontide majesty, to know ourselves / Parts and proportions of one wondrous whole! / This fraternises man, this constitutes / Our charities and bearings.= _Coleridge._

='Tis this= (religion), =my friend, that streaks our morning bright.= _Thomson._ (?)

='Tis too much proved that, with devotion's visage / And pious action, we do sugar o'er / The devil himself.= _Ham._, iii. 1.

='Tis well for once to do everything one can do,= 10 =in order to have the merit of knowing one's self more intimately.= _Goethe._

='Tis well to be merry and wise, / 'Tis well to be honest and true; / 'Tis well to be off with the old love / Before you are on with the new.= (?)

='Tis when sovereigns build, carters are kept employed.= _Schiller._

='Tis with our judgments as our watches; none / Go just alike, yet each believes his own.= _Pope._

=Tit for tat is fair play.= _Pr._

=Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons= 15 =and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.= _Goldsmith._

=Titles of honour add not to his worth who is himself an honour to his title.= _John Ford._

=Titles of honour conferred upon such as have no personal merit are at best but the royal stamp set upon base metal.= (?)

=Titus, amor et deliciæ humani generis=--Titus, the delight and darling of the human race. _Suetonius._

=To a child in confinement its mother's knee is a binding-post.= _Hitopadesa._

=To a dog the choicest thing in the world is a= 20 =dog: to an ox, an ox; to an ass, an ass; and to a sow, a sow.= _Schopenhauer._

=To a father waxing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.= _Euripides._

=To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child when his parents die, the past dies.= _Auerbach._

=To a new truth nothing is more mischievous than an old error.= _Goethe._

=To a poet nothing can be useless.= _Johnson._

=To accuse a man of lying is as much as to say= 25 =he is brave towards God and a coward towards man.= _Montaigne._

=To achieve great things a man must so live as if he had never to die.= _Vauvenargues._

=To acquire certainty in the appreciation of things exactly as they are, and to know them in their due subordination, and in their proper relation to one another--this is really the highest enjoyment to which we ought to aspire, whether in the sphere of art, of nature, or of life.= _Goethe._

=To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.= _Goethe._

=To act with a purpose is what raises man above the brutes; to invent with a purpose, to imitate with a purpose, is that which distinguishes genius from the petty artists who only invent to invent, and imitate to imitate.= _Lessing._

=To adhere to what is set down in them, and= 30 =appropriate to one's self what one can for moral strengthening and culture, is the only edifying purpose to which we can turn the Gospels.= _Goethe._

=To affect a quality is just to confess that you have not got it.= _Schopenhauer._

=To aim at excellence, our reputation, our friends, and our all must be ventured; by aiming only at mediocrity, we run no risk and we do little service.= _Goldsmith._

=To an ill-conditioned being all pleasure is like delicate wine in a mouth embittered with gall.= _Schopenhauer._

=To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man.= _Emerson._

=To appear well-bred, a man must actually be= 35 =so.= _Goethe._

=To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.= _Goethe._

=To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.= _Diogenes._

=To attack vices in the abstract without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows.= _Junius._

=To banish care, scare away sorrow, and soothe pain is the business of the poet, or singer= (_Sänger_). _Bodenstedt._

=To be a good poet and painter genius is required,= 40 =and this cannot be communicated.= _Goethe._

=To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's.= _William Penn._

=To be a philosopher is but a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.= _Cowley._

=To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.= _Thoreau._

=To be a poet is to have a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.= _George Eliot._

=To be able simply to say of a man he has character, is not only saying much of him, but extolling him; for this is a rarity which excites respect and wonder.= _Goethe._

=To be able to be silent shows power; to be willing to be silent shows forbearance= (_Nachsicht_); =to be compelled to be silent shows the spirit of the time.= _Weber._

=To be acquainted with the merit of a Ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people.= _Junius._

=To be always lamenting and always complaining without raising and nerving one's self to resignation, is to lose at once both earth and heaven, and have nothing over but a watery sentimentalism.= _Schopenhauer._

=To be always thinking about your manners is= 5 =not the way to make them good; because the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.= _Whately._

=To be an enthusiast is to be the worthiest of affection, the noblest and the best that a mortal can be.= _Wieland._

=To be angry is to avenge the faults of others upon ourselves.= _Pope._

=To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.= _Wendell Phillips._

=To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius.= _Balzac._

=To be born in a duck's nest in a farmyard is of= 10 =no consequence to a bird if it is hatched from a swan's egg.= _Hans Andersen._

=To be born with a silver spoon in the mouth.= _Pr._

=To be borne seems to many ever more kingly than to bear; and a ship carried with the breeze is, in their eyes, a lordlier spectacle than when it stands against it, victoriously braving it.= _Ed._

=To be disobedient through temptation is human sin; but to be disobedient for the sake of disobedience, fiendish sin. To be obedient for the sake of success in conduct is human virtue; to be obedient for the sake of obedience, angelic virtue.= _Ruskin._

=To be ever beloved, one must be ever agreeable.= _Lady Montagu._

=To be free is not to do nothing, but to be the= 15 =sole arbiter of what we do and what we leave undone.= _La Bruyère._

=To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.= _Hannah More._

=To be great is to be misunderstood.= _Emerson._

=To be great one must be positive, and gain strength through foes.= _Donn Piatt._

=To be guided in the right path by those who know better than they is the first "right of man," compared with which all other rights are as nothing.= _Carlyle._

=To be happy is not the purpose of our being,= 20 =but to deserve happiness.= _Fichte._

=To be happy means to be sufficient for one's self.= _Arist._

=To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.= _Ham._, ii. 2.

=To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches; and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.= _Johnson._

=To be ill thought of is sometimes for thy good, ... if thou seek not thy own glory, but His that sent thee, the affliction will not be very grievous to be borne.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=To be in too great a hurry to discharge an= 25 =obligation is itself a kind of ingratitude.= _La Roche._

=To be introduced into a decent company, there is need of a dress cut according to the taste of the public to which one wishes to present one's self.= _Goethe._

=To be magnanimous--mighty of heart, mighty of mind--is to be great in life; to become this increasingly is to "advance in life."= _Ruskin._

=To be mindful of an absent friend in the hours of mirth and feasting, when his company is least wanted, shows no slight degree of sincerity.= _Goldsmith._

=To be misunderstood is the cross and bitterness of life.= _Amiel._

=To be obliged to wear black, and buy it into= 30 =the bargain, is more than my tranquillity of temper can bear.= _Goldsmith._

=To be once in doubt is once to be resolved.= _Othello_, iii. 3.

=To be, or not to be, that is the question; / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles, / And, by opposing, end them.= _Ham._, iii. 1.

=To be perfectly just, is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man.= (?)

=To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.= _Goldsmith._

=To be prepared for war is one of the most= 35 =effectual means of preserving peace.= _Washington._

=To be provoked with every slanderous word argues a littleness of soul, a want of due regard to God.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works and chief men of each race.= _Emerson._

=To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.= _Holmes._

=To be spiritually minded is life and peace.= _Paul._

=To be thus is nothing; / But to be safely thus.= 40 _Macb._, iii. 1.

=To be true in heart and just in act are the first qualities necessary for the elevation of humanity.= _Froude._

=To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride.= _Swift._

=To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclose that one is below it.= _Stanislaus._

=To be weak is miserable, / Doing or suffering.= _Milton._

=To be wholly loved with the whole heart, one= 45 =must be suffering.= _Heine._

=To be wise and love exceeds man's might.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 2.

=To be without a servant in this world is not good; but to be without a master, it appears, is a still fataller predicament for some.= _Carlyle._

=To be without passion is worse than a beast; to be without reason is to be less than a man.= _A. Warwick._

=To be wroth with one we love, / Doth work like madness in the brain.= _Coleridge._

=To be young is to be as one of the immortals.= _Hazlitt._

=To bear is to conquer our fate.= _Campbell._ 5

=To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it and disputed against it.= _Novalis._

=To beguile the time, / Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, / Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under 't.= _Macb._, i. 5.

=To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.= _Emerson._

=To blow is not to play the flute; you must move the fingers as well.= _Goethe._

=To breed a fresh soul, is it not like brooding a= 10 =fresh (celestial) egg, wherein as yet all is formless, powerless? Yet by degrees organic elements and fibres shoot through the watery albumen; out of vague sensation grows thought, grows fantasy and force, and we have philosophies, dynasties, nay, poetries and religions.= _Carlyle._

=To bring nations to surrender themselves to new ideas is not the affair of a day.= _Draper._

=To bring the generality of admirers on our side, it is sufficient to attempt pleasing a very few.= _Goldsmith._

=To business that we love we rise betime, / And go to 't with delight.= _Ant. and Cleop._, iv. 4.

=To call a man ungrateful is to sum up all the evil he can be guilty of.= _Swift._

=To carry on the feelings of childhood into the= 15 =powers of manhood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day, for perhaps forty years, has rendered familiar; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talent.= _Coleridge._

=To cast away a virtuous friend is as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.= _Sophocles._

=To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, / Assiduous wait upon her; / And gather gear by ev'ry wile / That's justified by honour; / Not for to hide it in a hedge, / Nor for a train attendant, / But for the glorious privilege / Of being independent.= _Burns._

=To circumstances and custom the law must yield.= _Dan. Pr._

=To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.= _Chinese Pr._

=To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.= 20 _Hen. VIII._, i. 1.

=To confess Christ is, first, to believe righteously, truthfully, and continently; and, then, to separate ourselves from those who are manifestly or by profession rogues, liars, and fornicators.= _Ruskin._

=To conquer inclination is difficult, but if habit, taking root, gradually associates itself with it, then it is unconquerable.= _Goethe._

=To conquer without danger would be to conquer without glory.= _Corneille._

=To consume your own choler, as some chimneys consume their own smoke; to keep a whole Satanic school spouting, if it must spout, inaudibly, is a negative yet no slight virtue, nor one of the commonest in these times.= _Carlyle._

=To corporeal beings unthought-of troubles= 25 =arise; so, in like manner, do blessings make their appearance. In this, I think Providence hath extended them farther than usual.= _Hitopadesa._

=To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures.= _Hen. VIII._, v. 2.

=To-day comes only once, and never again returns.= _Schopenhauer._

=To-day is a king in disguise.= _Emerson._

=To-day is ours, we have it here, ... / To the gods belong to-morrow.= _Cowley._

=To-day must not borrow of to-morrow.= _Ger. Pr._ 30

=To deny is easy; nothing is sooner learned or more generally practised. As matters go, we need no man of polish to teach it; but rather, if possible, a hundred men of wisdom to show us its limits and teach us its reverse.= _Carlyle._

=To depersonalise man is the dominant drift of our epoch.= _Amiel._

=To despise our own species is the price we must too often pay for a knowledge of it.= _Colton._

=To die for truth is not to die for one's country but to die for the world.= _Jean Paul._

=To die is landing on some silent shore, / Where= 35 =billows never break nor tempests roar.= _S. Garth._

=To die, to sleep; / No more; and by a sleep to say we end / The heartache and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished.= _Ham._, iii. 1.

=To die, to sleep; / No more! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; / For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause.= _Ham._, iii. 1.

=To do as much good and as little evil as we can is the brief and intelligible principle that comprehends all subordinate maxims.= _R. Sharp._

=To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.= _Amiel._

=To do good to the ungrateful is to throw rosewater= 40 =into the sea.= _Pr._

=To do him any wrong was to beget / A kindness from him, for his heart was rich, / Of such fine mould, that if you sow'd therein / The seed of Hate, it blossom'd Charity.= _Tennyson._

=To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.= _Bible._

=To do no evil is good; to intend none is better.= _Claudius._

=To do nothing by halves is the way of noble minds.= _Wieland._

=To do, one must be doing.= _Fr. Pr._ 45

=To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.= _Amiel._

=To doubt is to dip love in the mire.= _J. M. Barrie._

=To draw a long bow=, _i.e._, exaggerate. _Pr._

=To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the greatest prerogative of innocence; an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.= _Johnson._

=To dwell alone is the fate of all great souls.= _Schopenhauer._

=To each nation its believed history is its Bible.= _Carlyle._

=To eat or drink too much, to play too much,= 5 =to work too much, or to grumble too much--all these are equally pernicious.= _John Wagstaffe._

=To educate the intelligence is to enlarge the horizon of its desires and wants.= _Lowell._

=To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The wise man is the State.= _Emerson._

=To elevate above the spirit of the age must be regarded as the end of education.= _Jean Paul._

=To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy is to spend so much in armour that one has nothing left to defend.= (?)

=To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with= 10 =fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.= _Pope._

=To endure is the first and most necessary lesson a child has to learn.= _Rousseau._

=To equal a predecessor, one must have twice his worth.= _Gracian._

=To err is human, to forgive divine.= _Pope._

=To escape from arrangements that tortured me, my heart sought refuge in the world of ideas, when as yet I was unacquainted with the world of realities, from which iron bars excluded me.= _Schiller at his training-school._

=To every deep there is a deeper still.= _Pr._ 15

=To everything there is a season.= _Bible._

=To excite a fierce dog to capture a lame rabbit is to attack a contemptible enemy.= _Chinese Pr._

=To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous: or even if he did, you would find fault with him as a pedant.= _Hazlitt._

=To express the most difficult matters clearly, and everything intelligibly, is to strike coins out of pure gold.= _Geibel._

=To fail at all is to fail utterly.= _Lowell._ 20

=To fear is easy, but grievous; to reverence is difficult, but satisfactory.= _Goethe._

=To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, / Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.

=To feel and respect a great personality, one must be something one's self.= _Goethe._

=To fight and die is death destroying death; / Where fearing dying, pays death servile breath.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.

=To fight with its neighbours never was, and is= 25 =now less than ever, the real trade of England.= _Carlyle._

=To fill the hour, that is happiness.= _Emerson._

=To find out your real opinion of any one, observe the impression made upon you by the first sight of a letter from him.= _Schopenhauer._

=To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.= _Pascal._

=To fix a child's attention on what is present, to give him a description of a name, is the best thing we can do for him.= _Goethe._

=To forget a wrong is the best revenge.= _It. Pr._ 30

=To forgive and forget is to throw away dearly-bought experience.= _Schopenhauer._

=To form a poet, the heart must be full to overflowing of noble feeling.= _Goethe._

=To free a man from error is to give, and not to take away.= _Schopenhauer._

=To gain what is fit ye're able, / If ye in faith can but excel; / Such are the myths of fable, / If ye have observed them well.= _Goethe._

=To gather riches do not hazard health; / For,= 35 =truth to say, health is the wealth of wealth.= _Sir Richard Baker._

=To genius irregularity is incident, and the greatest genius is often marked by eccentricity, as if it disdained to move in the vulgar orbit.= _Brougham._

=To genius life never grows commonplace.= _Lowell._

=To get general ideas first and make particular observations last is to invert the process of education.= _Schopenhauer._

=To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To throw a perfume on the violet, / To smooth the ice, or add another hue / Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light / To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, / Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.= _King John_, iii. 1.

=To give alms is nothing unless you give= 40 =thought also, and therefore it is written, not "Blessed is he that feedeth the poor," but "Blessed is he that considereth the poor."= _Ruskin._

=To give should be our pleasure, but to receive our shame.= _Goldsmith._

=To give the world more than it gives us, to love it more than it loves us, and never to make suit for its applause, ensures a peaceful life and a happy departure.= _Bodenstedt._

=To give to the human mind a direction which it shall retain for ages is the rare prerogative of a few imperial spirits.= _Macaulay._

=To go back is easy, if we have missed our way on the road uphill; it is impossible only when the road is downhill.= _Froude._

=To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to= 45 =outrage humanity.= _Pascal._

=To God belongeth the east and the west; therefore, whithersoever ye turn yourselves to pray, there is the word of God, for God is omnipresent and omniscient.= _Koran._

=To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments or despise them.= _Disraeli._

=To grasp, to seize, is the essence of all mastery.= _Goethe._

=To great evils one must oppose great virtues; and also to small, which is the harder task of the two.= _Carlyle._

=To guard from error is not the instructor's= 50 =business; but to lead the erring pupil.= _Goethe._

=To guide scoundrels by love is a method that will not hold together; hardly for the flower of men will love do; and for the sediment and scoundrelism of them it has not even a chance to do.= _Carlyle._

=To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.= _Sterne._

=To have all one's wants satisfied is something intolerable.= _Schopenhauer._

=To have any chance of lasting, a book must satisfy, not merely some fleeting fancy of the day, but a constant longing and hunger of human nature.= _Lowell._

=To have ascertained what is ascertainable, and calmly to reverence what is not, is the fairest portion that can fall to a thinking man.= _Goethe._

=To have done anything by which you earned= 5 =money merely is to have been truly idle, or worse.= _Thoreau._

=To have done, is to hang / Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, / In monumental mockery.= _Troil. and Cres._, iii. 3.

=To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be in sorrow.= _Johnson._

=To have heard the voice / Of Godhead in the winds and in the seas, / To have known him in the circling of the suns, / And in the changeful fates and lives of men.= _Lewis Morris._

=To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands.= _Mme. Swetchine._

=To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor= 10 =equal, united manlike to you; without father, without child, without brother,--man knows no sadder destiny.= _Carlyle._

=To have no assistance from other minds in resolving doubts, in appeasing scruples, in balancing deliberations, is a very wretched destitution.= _Johnson._

=To have no pain, and not be bored, is the utmost happiness possible to man on earth.= _Schopenhauer._

=To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.= _Swinburne._

=To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.= _William Penn._

=To have the fear of God before our eyes, and,= 15 =in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong; the first of these will comprehend the duties of religion; the second, those of morality.= _Sterne._

=To have the gift of life and bread to sustain it with can never suffice as a substitute for the ministry and service which the life itself is given us that we may fulfil. To find and work out this is man's only satisfaction and true reward.= _Ed._

=To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.= _Johnson._

=To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; / He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.= _Pope._

=To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.= _St. James._

=To his= (the host's) =imagination all things travel= 20 =save his sign-post and himself.= _Thoreau._

=To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.= _Ham._, iii. 2.

=To holy tears, / In lonely hours, Christ risen appears; / In social hours, who Christ would see / Must turn all tasks to charity.= _Keble._

=To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.= _Schopenhauer._

=To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.= _Johnson._

=To judge by the event is an error all abuse= 25 =and all commit; for in every instance, courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity.= _Colton._

=To judge is to see clearly, to care for what is just.= _Amiel._

=To keep the wolf from the door.= _Pr._

=To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us,--when we succeed, it betrays us.= _Colton._

=To know by rote is no knowledge; it is only to retain in the memory what is entrusted to it.= _Montaigne._

=To know evil of others and not speak it, is= 30 =sometimes discretion; to speak evil of others and not know it, is always dishonesty. He may be evil himself who speaks good of others upon knowledge, but he can never be good himself who speaks evil of others upon suspicion.= _Arthur Warwick._

=To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings.= _Richelieu._

=To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.= _Amiel._

=To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.= _Amiel._

=To know how to wait is the great secret of success.= _De Maistre._

=To know life we must detach ourselves from= 35 =life.= _Feuerbach._

=To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.= _Macb._, ii. 2.

=To know of some one here and there with whom we accord, who is living on with us even in silence, this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.= _Goethe._

=To know one profession only, is enough for one man to know.= _Goldsmith._

=To know / That which before us lies in daily life, / Is the prime wisdom.= _Milton._

=To know the divine laws and inner harmonies= 40 =of this universe must always be the highest glory for a man; and not to know them always the highest disgrace for a man, however common it be.= _Carlyle._

=To know the true opinions of men, one ought to pay more respect to their actions than their words.= _Descartes._

=To know the world, a modern phrase! a modern phrase / For visits, ombre, balls, and plays.= _Swift._

=To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, / Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.= _Coleridge._

=To know; to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic act, of which the best logics can only babble on the surface.= _Carlyle._

=To know what is useful and what useless, and to be skilful to provide the one and wise to scorn the other, is the first need for all industrious men.= _Ruskin._

=To lament the past is vain; what remains is to look for hope in futurity.= _Johnson._

=To lapse in fulness / Is sorer than to lie for need; and falsehood / Is worse in kings than beggars.= _Cymbeline_, iii. 6.

=To learn obeying is the fundamental art of governing.= _Carlyle._

=To live by one man's will became the cause of= 5 =all men's misery.= _Hooker._

=To live happily only means to live tolerably.= _Schopenhauer._

=To live in hearts we leave behind / Is not to die.= _Campbell._

=To live is not to breathe; it is to act.= _Rousseau._

=To live is to achieve a perpetual triumph.= _Amiel._

=To live long is to outlive much.= _Goethe._ 10

=To look at things as well as we can, to inscribe them in our memory, to be observant, and let no day pass without gathering something; then to apply one's self to those branches of knowledge which give the mind a sure direction, to apportion everything its place, to assign to everything its value (in my opinion a genuine philosophy and a fundamental mathesis), this is what we have now to do.= _Goethe._

=To lose one's self in revery, one must be either very happy or very unhappy. Revery is the child of extreme.= _Rivarol._

=To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.= _Sydney Smith._

=To love all mankind, from the greatest to the lowest, a cheerful state of being is required; but in order to see into mankind, into life, and still more into ourselves, suffering is requisite.= _Jean Paul._

=To love early and marry late is to hear a lark= 15 =singing at dawn, and at night to eat it roasted for supper.= _Jean Paul._

=To love is to be useful to yourself; to cause love is to be useful to others.= _Béranger._

=To maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we would live simply and wisely.= _Thoreau._

=To mak' a happy fireside clime / To weans and wife, / That's the true pathos and sublime / O' human life.= _Burns._

=To make a boy despise his mother's care is the straightest way to make him also despise his Redeemer's voice; and to make him scorn his father and his father's house, the straightest way to make him deny his God and his God's heaven.= _Ruskin._

=To make elaborate preparations for life is one= 20 =of the greatest and commonest of human follies.= _Schopenhauer._

=To make proselytes is the natural ambition of every one.= _Goethe._

=To make some nook of God's creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God; to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuller, happier, more blessed, less accursed! It is work for a God.= _Carlyle._

=To make the common marvellous, as if it were a revelation, is the test of genius.= _Lowell._

=To man, in this his trial state, / The privilege is given, / When tost by tides of human fate, / To anchor fast in heaven.= _Watts._

=To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One= 25 =native charm, than all the gloss of art.= _Goldsmith._

=To me the eternal existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.= _Goethe._

=To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.= _Wordsworth._

=To men we can give no help, and they hinder us from helping ourselves.= _Jarno, in Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister."_

=To misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong--to myself, the action, and the author.= _Bp. Hall._

=To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, / 30 Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, / To the last syllable of recorded time; / And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / To dusty death.= _Macb._, v. 5.

=To-morrow is a satire on to-day, and shows its weakness.= _Young._

="To-morrow, to-morrow, only not to-day," lazy people always say.= _C. F. Weisse._

=To-morrow will I live, the fool does say: / To-day itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.= _Cowley._

=To-morrow you will live, you always cry; / In what far country does this morrow lie?= _Cowley._

=To most men experience is like the stern= 35 =lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.= _Coleridge._

=To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, / Is the next way to draw new mischief on.= _Othello_, i. 3.

=To no man does Fortune throw open all the kingdoms of this world, and say: It is thine; choose where thou wilt dwell! To the most she opens hardly the smallest cranny or dog-hutch, and says, not without asperity: There, that is thine while thou canst keep it; nestle thyself there, and bless Heaven!= _Carlyle._

=To no man, whatever his station in life, or his power to serve me, have I ever paid a compliment at the expense of truth.= _Burns._

=To nurse the flowers, to root up the weeds, is the business of the gardener.= _Bodenstedt._

=To obey is the best grace of woman.= _Lewis_ 40 _Morris._

=To one thing at one time.= _Chancellor Thurlow._

=To open your windows be ever your care.= _Pr._

=To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.= _Schopenhauer._

=To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.= _Mahomet._

=To pass through a bustling crowd with its restless= 45 =excitement is strange but salutary. All go crossing and recrossing one another, and yet each finds his way and his object. In so great a crowd and bustle one feels himself perfectly calm and solitary.= _Goethe._

=To persevere / In obstinate condolement, is a course / Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief: / It shows a will most incorrect to heaven.= _Ham._, i. 2.

=To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.= _Washington._

=To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before the necessary.= _M. de Montlosier._

=To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early, / For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly.= _Burns._

=To popular religion, the real kingdom of God is the New Jerusalem with its jaspers and emeralds; righteousness and peace and joy are only the kingdom of God figuratively.= _Matthew Arnold._

=To pour oil on the fire is not the way to quench= 5 =it.= _Pr._

=To prefer one future mode of life to another, upon just reasons, requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us.= _Johnson._

=To promise is already to give, to hope already to enjoy.= _Delille._

=To prove, as to doubt, the existence of God, is to prove or doubt the existence of existence.= _Jean Paul._

=To put the cart before the horse.= _Pr._

=To raise the weaker sex in self-respect, as= 10 =well as in the esteem of the stronger, is the first step from barbarism to civilisation.= _Canning._

=To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.= _Burke._

=To receive a simple primitive phenomenon, to recognise it in its high significance, and to go to work with it, requires a productive spirit, which is able to take a wide survey, and is a rare gift, only to be found in very superior natures.= _Goethe._

=To receive gifts is to lose liberty.= _Saadi._

=To reconcile despotism with freedom is to make your despotism just.= _Carlyle._

=To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise= 15 =man will undertake; and all but foolish men know that the only solid, though a far slower, reformation, is what each man begins and perfects on himself.= _Carlyle._

=To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; / Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.= _Milton._

=To rejoice in the prosperity of another is to partake of it.= _William Austin._

=To remember one worthy thing, how many thousand unworthy must a man be able to forget!= _Carlyle._

=To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.= _Amiel._

=To require two things is the way to have them= 20 =both undone.= _Johnson._

=To rescue, to avenge, to instruct, or protect a woman is all the same as to love her.= _Jean Paul._

=To revenge is no valour, but to bear.= _Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.

=To run away / Is but a coward's trick; to run away / From this world's ills, that at the very worst / Will soon blow o'er.= _Blair._

=To say of a man "He means well," is worth nothing except he does well.= _Plaut._

=To say that we have a clear conscience is to= 25 =utter a solecism; had we never sinned, we would have had no conscience.= _Carlyle._

=To scorn delights and live laborious days.= _Milton._

=To secure and promote the feeling of cheerfulness should be the supreme aim of all our endeavours after happiness.= _Schopenhauer._

=To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an hour.= _Wm. Blake._

=To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.= _Confucius._

=To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion--all= 30 =in one.= _Ruskin._

=To see her is to love her, / And love but her for ever.= _Burns._

=To see some small soul pirouetting throughout life on a single text, and judging all the world because it cannot find a partner, is not a Christian sight.= _Prof. Drummond._

=To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.= _J. M. Barrie._

=To seek to change opinions by laws is worse than futile.= _Buckle._

=To seem and not to be, is throwing the shuttle= 35 =without weaving.= _Pr._

=To seize a character, even that of one man, in its life and secret mechanism, requires a philosopher; to delineate it with truth and impressiveness, is work for a poet.= _Carlyle._

=To serve from the lowest station upwards= (_von unten hinauf_) =is in all things necessary.= _Goethe._

=To serve God and love him is higher and better than happiness, though it be with wounded feet, and bleeding brow, and a heart loaded with sorrow.= _W. R. Greg._

=To shape the whole future is not our problem; but only to shape faithfully a small part of it, according to rules laid down.= _Carlyle._

=To shoot wide of the mark=, _i.e._, guess foolishly 40 when you don't know. _Pr._

=To show mercy is nothing--thy soul must be full of mercy; to be pure in act is nothing--thou shalt be pure in heart also.= _Ruskin._

=To sigh, yet feel no pain; / To weep, yet scarce know why; / To sport an hour with beauty's charm, / Then throw it idly by.= _Moore._

=To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.= _Crabbe._

=To simplify complications is, in all branches of knowledge, the first essential of success.= _Buckle._

=To sow is not so difficult as to reap.= _Goethe._ 45

=To spend much and gain little is the sure road to ruin.= _Ger. Pr._

=To spend too much time in studies is sloth.= _Bacon._

=To spur a free horse soon makes a jade of him.= _Sterne._

=To step aside is human.= _Burns._

=To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.= _Pr._ 50

=To strive to get rid of an evil is to aim at something definite, but to desire a better fortune than we have is blind folly.= _Goethe._