Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.