I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.
I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.
We cannot put a noose around another man’s neck without first hanging ourselves.
What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.
Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.
It was here in Big Sur that I first learned to say ‘amen.’
Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.
The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.
I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.
Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.
The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty.
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
I have said that I’m not running and I’m having a great time being pres – being a first-term senator.