“Every professional was once an amateur.”

When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He’s sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres’ gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper’s hand.

All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

Expression is the dress of thought.

The laughers are a majority.

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man’s erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

I don’t see how he can ever finish, if he doesn’t begin.

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

The most beautiful stories begin with courage.

Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can’t believe that ours didn’t go on forever.

What if you used the time wondering if you can make a difference to just began?

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.

Start Shaky. Start unsure. Start scared. You are writing a brave beginning to this chapter.