Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.