Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.

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

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.

The motive power is the cause of all life.

The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.

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.