The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

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.

Children are what the mothers are.

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

Great men always pay deference to greater.

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love.