"What I began by reading, I must..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.”

“The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?”

“The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.”

“Nobody wants his cause near as bad as he wants to talk about his cause.”

“If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.”

“Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.”

“There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.”

“All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.”

“Play is the highest from of research.”