If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.
It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
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.
If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
The landscapist lives in silence.