Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.