“The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.”

“If you have a friend, a good friend, a woman you love, and you learn she’s done something abominable, do you stop loving her?”

“The man who won't loan money isn't going to have many friends - or need them.”

“...the state should support art,construed not as amusement but as one of the chief carriers of civilization.”

“Libraries are a kind of communism which the least revolutionary among us may be proud to advocate.”

“To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners”

“People…ladies, I mean…they dye their hair sometimes,” I explained to him. “So one day they have red hair and another day they have brown hair. It doesn’t matter,” I said. “They’re still the same lady.”