Nature's instructions are always slow; those of men are generally premature.
It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
Cities are the sinks of the human race.
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
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.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.