The landscapist lives in silence.
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.
If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.