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.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

We oftener say things because we can say them well, than because they are sound and reasonable.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.

He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt. The most sparkling and pointed flame of wit flickers and expires against the incombustible walls of her sanctuary.