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.