Cities Are The Sinks Of The Human

The Severity Of Penalties Is Only A Vain Resource, Invented By Little Minds In Order To Substitute Terror For That Respect Which They Have No Means Of Obtaining.

If A King Tries To Start A War, A Mother Should Go To Him And Forbid It.

Nature's Instructions Are Always Slow; Those Of Men Are Generally Premature.

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.

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