“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”

“The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.”

“No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience.”

“Everything is all one - that is the beginning and end with you.”

“Attempts at description are stupid. Who can all at once describe a human being? Even when he is presented to us we only begin that knowledge of his appearance which must be completed by innumerable impressions under differing circumstances.”

“Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.”

“Our consiousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us anymore than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.”