The Landscapist Lives In Silence.

It Is Not The Criminal Things Which Are Hardest To Confess, But The Ridiculous And Shameful.

I Have Always Believed That Good Is Only Beauty Put Into Practice.

Nothing Makes Me So Happy As To Observe Nature And To Paint What I See.

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.

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.