All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.