Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To seek to know is to seek occasion to doubt. [ French ]

As you do to others, expect others to do to you. [ Proverb ]

To love, or not to love, is not left to our will. [ Corneille ]

To be virtuous, is to do good, and to do it well. [ Proverb ]

To be happy is not to enjoy: it is not to suffer. [ Raspail ]

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

The way to live much, is to begin to live well betimes. [ Proverb ]

To live is not to spend or waste time, but to employ it. [ Proverb ]

As you do to others, you may expect another to do to you. [ Laber ]

The only way to know and to serve God, is to be like him. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to know how to speak, than how to be silent. [ Proverb ]

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back. [ Haliburton ]

Scorn to trample upon a worm or to sneak to be an emperor. [ Saadi ]

To teach an ass to obey the rein, (i.e. to labour in vain.) [ Proverb ]

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be in sorrow. [ Johnson ]

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. [ Gibbon ]

Give only so much to one that you may have to give to another. [ Danish Proverb ]

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved. [ Hazlitt ]

To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one's self to die. [ Cicero ]

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise. [ Goldsmith ]

Adieu to the carriage, adieu to the shop, (i.e. to the business. [ French Proverb ]

To be happy is not to possess much, but to hope and to love much. [ Lamennais ]

To believe and go forward is the key to success and to happiness. [ Lilian Whiting ]

For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar. [ Shakespeare ]

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy to you than to conquer him. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to run from virtue to vice, than from vice to virtue. [ Proverb ]

Allow no man to be so free with you as to praise you to your face. [ Steele ]

To do good to the ungrateful, is to throw rose-water into the sea. [ Proverb ]

Better far to die in the old harness than to try to put on another. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

You may go to the court. A writ to remove a case to a higher court. [ Law Term ]

To be despised is more galling to a foolish man than to be whipped.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power. [ George MacDonald ]

As birds are made to fly and rivers to run, so the soul to follow duty. [ Ramayana ]

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities. [ Rochefoucauld ]

To try to conceal our own heart, is a bad means to read that of others. [ Rousseau ]

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. [ Holmes ]

Man is often a wolf to man, a serpent to God, and a scorpion to himself. [ Spurgeon ]

To reproach a man with your kindness to him is tantamount to an affront. [ Racine ]

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. [ T. Gautier ]

I madly take to arms; but have not wit enough to use them to any purpose. [ Virgil ]

In love, the only way to resist temptation is to sometimes succumb to it. [ Mme. de Choiseul ]

A mother's duty to her children is second only to her duty to her Creator. [ Mrs. Sarah D. Comstock ]

Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is to fever and rage to anger. [ Voltaire ]

To endeavor to forget any one is the certain way to think of nothing else. [ La Bruyere ]

He that gives time to resolve, gives time to deny, and warning to prevent. [ Proverb ]

Less coin, less care; to know how to dispense with wealth is to possess it. [ Reynard ]

The hardest time to lie to somebody is when they're expecting to be lied to. [ Alan Turing ]

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

To destroy the idea of the immortality of the soul is to add death to death. [ Mme. de Souza ]

To persevere in one's duty, and to be silent, is the best answer to calumny. [ George Washington ]

Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination. [ Fichte ]

Sincerity is the way to heaven. To think how to be sincere is the way of man. [ Confucius ]

Be deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to the scorner and dumb to the inquisitive. [ Aughey ]

Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, old books to read. [ Alonzo of Arragon ]

You have only to watch other ill-natured people, to resolve to be unlike them. [ Charles Buxton ]

The surest way to please is to forget one's self, and to think only of others. [ Moncrif ]

Better to have never loved, than to have loved unhappily, or to have half loved. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science' as to suffer it to stagnate. [ Burke ]

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die. [ Vauvenargues ]

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them. [ Burke ]