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

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.