“Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.”

“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”

“At least be sure you go to the author to find his meaning, not to find yours.”

“All great art is praise.”

“All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.”

“I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.”

“All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.”