Light (God's eldest daughter!). [ Fuller ]

Sable-vested Night, eldest of things! [ Milton ]

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. [ Victor Hugo ]

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin. [ John Webster ]

Fair eldest child of love, thou spotless night!
Empress of silence, and the queen of sleep;
Who, with thy black cheek's pure complexion,
Mak'st lovers' eyes enamoured of thy beauty. [ Marlowe ]

Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most. [ Congreve ]

Mild May's eldest child, the coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, the murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. [ Keats ]

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and Duty - the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Love is the eldest, noblest, and mightiest of the gods, and the chiefest author and giver of virtue in life and happiness after death. [ Plato ]

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance. [ Landor ]

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]