What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

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.

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.