You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

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

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.