To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was tautology.

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

To do something, say something, seesomething, before anybody else—these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

To eat is human, to digest, divine