Contentment is better than divinations or visions.

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

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.

Consult duty not events.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

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

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.