I felt before I thought

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!"

The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.

It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.