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!"
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
The landscapist lives in silence.
It is not I that am drawing, it is this thing at the end of my hand.
If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
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.