A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases and then commences the state of war.

Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.