To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second,Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea--by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned.

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.