Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.
I honor health as the first Muse.
Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.
We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
Mankind divides itself into two classes, – benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.
Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first.
The work of vegetation begins first in the irritability of the bark and leaf-buds.
Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Afterwards, it may warm itself until it exhales symbols of every kind and color, speaks only through the most poetic forms; but first and last, it must still be at bottom a biblical statement of fact.
First be a good animal.
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
The finest poetry was first experience.
First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.
Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.