“All beginnings are very troublesome things.”

“It is a troublesome thing this susceptibility to affronts where none are intended.”

“It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,—nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.”

“The beginnings of all things are small.”
Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.

“An Ambitious woman shewes her selfe to bee a troublesome disturber of the world, powerfull to make smale things great, and great monstrous”

“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war and to end it.”

“Three things only do slaves require, food, work, and their gods, and of the three their gods must never be touched, else they grow troublesome.”

“Because the moment you stop doing the very things that got you to the top of the mountain is the very moment you begin the slid down to the valley.”

“At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.”

“Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.”