Hope is the mother of faith.

The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

Cats ask plainly for what they want.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. I make a distinction between God's great and the king's great.

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.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.