There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

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.

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.