To look at things as well as we can, to inscribe them in our memory, to be observant, and let no day pass without gathering something; then to apply one's self to those branches of knowledge which give the mind a sure direction, to apportion everything its place, to assign to everything its value (in my opinion a genuine philosophy and a fundamental mathesis), this is what we have now to do. Goethe.
To lose one's self in revery, one must be either very happy or very unhappy. Revery is the child of extreme. Rivarol.
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith.
To love all mankind, from the greatest to the lowest, a cheerful state of being is required; but in order to see into mankind, into life, and still more into ourselves, suffering is requisite. Jean Paul.
To love early and marry late is to hear a lark 15 singing at dawn, and at night to eat it roasted for supper. Jean Paul.
To love is to be useful to yourself; to cause love is to be useful to others. Béranger.
To maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we would live simply and wisely. Thoreau.
To mak' a happy fireside clime / To weans and wife, / That's the true pathos and sublime / O' human life. Burns.
To make a boy despise his mother's care is the straightest way to make him also despise his Redeemer's voice; and to make him scorn his father and his father's house, the straightest way to make him deny his God and his God's heaven. Ruskin.
To make elaborate preparations for life is one 20 of the greatest and commonest of human follies. Schopenhauer.