To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye—what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.