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.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

... privation is the source of appetite.

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

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

Rare is he who will concede genius.

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