It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
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.
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.