Love ever your neighbour as yourselves – but first be such as love themselves.
The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.
One becomes more interested in a job of work after the first impulse to drop it has been overcome.
Souls generally do not fall away from Christ because of the Creed; they first have difficulty with the Commandments.
Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.
I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don’t succeed, I quit!
One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.
To cook your hare you must first catch it.
The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.
This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.
The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.
Our first duty is not to be poor.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
Woman’s happiness begins with her first love and ends about then.
The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.