Art is the only clean thing on earth, except holiness.
Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.
Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc. , being brought in as other guests arrive.
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.
Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.
Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.
A holy man isn't aware that he's holy. . As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.
Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
Thou knowest how numerous this tribe is, how united and how powerful in the assemblies. I will plead in a low voice so that only the judges may hear, for instigators are not lacking to stir up the crowd against me, and against all the best citizens. To scorn, in the interest of the Republic, this multitude of Jews so often turbulent in the assemblies shows a singular strength of mind. The money is in the Treasury; they do not accuse us of theft; they seek to stir up hatreds.
I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.