“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

“Logic always seems to be telling us, in language quite unnecessarily technical, what we understood much better before it was explained.”

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”

“I smelled her before I saw her. Even so, the first sight was shocking.”

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”

“A society where emotions come last and selfishness is considered blessed, or placed first before anything; cannot be expected to produce good fruits!”

“Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.”

“The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.”

“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”