While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

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.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.