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.

Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.

The severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining.

Cities are the sinks of the human race.

Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.