You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.

Not to anticipate is already to moan.

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, ’tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

Among the great things which are to be found among us, the being of nothingness is the greatest.

Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony is composed of the union of proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.