To taste of human flesh is less criminal in the eyes of God than to stifle human thought. Draper.
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I disclaim it. Disraeli.
To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly. Johnson.
To the capable man this world is not dumb. 5 Goethe.
To the exiled wanderer how godlike / The friendly countenance of man appears. Goethe.
To the Hindu the world is the dream of Brahma. Amiel.
To the innocent, deliverance and reparation; to the misled, compassion; and to the guilty, avenging justice. Goethe.
To the man of firm purpose all men and things are servile. Goethe.
To the minnow every cranny and pebble, and 10 quality and accident, of its little native creek may have become familiar; but does the minnow understand the ocean tides and periodic currents, the trade-winds, and monsoons, and moon's eclipses; by all of which the condition of its little creek is regulated, and may (from time to time, unmiraculously enough) be quite overset and reversed? Such a minnow is man; his creek, this planet earth; his ocean, the immeasurable All; his monsoons and periodic currents, the mysterious course of Providence through æons of æons. Carlyle.
To the noble mind / Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. Ham., iii. 1.