In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat to live, not live to eat.

It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

The smallest errors are always the best.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.