Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter.

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.

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.