We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Teach him to live unto God and unto thee; and he will discover that women, like the plants in woods, derive their softness and tenderness from the shade.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

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.