To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
- T.S. Eliot

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
- T.S. Eliot

It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.
- T.S. Eliot

Only who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S. Eliot