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.