Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.