Water astonishing and difficult altogether makes a meadow and a stroke.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

Too few is as many as too many.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.