The landscapist lives in silence.

The landscapist lives in silence.

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.

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

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

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.

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.