The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. Alfred North Whitehead
Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience. François Fénelon
If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West. Horace Greeley
Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. Benjamin Disraeli
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Have a care not to commence an undertaking of which you may repent. Latin Proverb