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.

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.

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

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

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.

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.