“All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.”

Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals.

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

The best thing a man can do on a first date is be a friend.

The government can’t give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody.

But I want to be the first back to have back-to-back 2,000-yard seasons.

Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn’t worry about the consequences.

The first time I went inside a plane, I was 15 years old and I had so much fun.

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction,