What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

When you are alone you are all your own.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

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

average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness.