Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
That an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
I’ve always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.
Have you noticed that the imbecile always smiles? Man’s first frown is the first touch of God on his forehead. The touch of thought.
Unless you’re one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you.
We can’t change the way Washington works unless we first change how Congress works.
So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.
The first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act.
The first time you quit, it’s hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don’t even have to think about it.
The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.
That earliest shock in one’s life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.
She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans.
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Let the child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second.
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.