Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.

Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

Cooking is a form of flattery....a mischievous, deceitful, mean and ignoble activity, which cheats us by shapes and colors, by smoothing and draping.