You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

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

The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.

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.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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.