“There is no beginning too small.”

“For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever.”

“It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.”

“Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys.”

“Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!”

“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood”

“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.”