From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.