And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the sin?

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me.

... privation is the source of appetite.

Rare is he who will concede genius.

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.