I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.

You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.

Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.

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.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.