Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.
Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.