Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
The universe was born restless and has never since been still.
Cities are the sinks of the human race.
The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.