Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.

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.

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.