In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

One may be humble out of pride.

My art and profession is to live.

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.

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.