The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.

They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.