An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

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

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.