It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

We may call painting the grandchild of nature.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.