Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

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.

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!"

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

I felt before I thought

It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.