Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

God defend me from myself.

The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.