“Education...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.”

“It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.”

“All great art is praise.”

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

“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.”

“Nothing is ever done beautifully which is donein rival ship: or nobly, which is done in pride.”

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