“Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.”

“He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!”

“In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war.”

“I had rather seem mad and a sluggard, so that my defects are agreeable to myself, or that I am not pinfully conscious of them, than be wise, and chaptious.”

“Capture your reader, let him not depart, from dull beginnings that refuse to start”

“He cannot wisely consent to spend the best years of his life in getting ready to live.”

“The way we do things is to begin.”