There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which surrounds it. Most have beauty of outline merely, and are striking as the form and bearing of a stranger; but true verses come toward us indistinctly, as the very breath of all friendliness, and envelop us in their spirit and fragrance.

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.