Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.