"....that the mounds of ices, and the..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows.”

“The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together and to rest in her bosom.”

“She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.”

“This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach.”

“The most sincere form of love is love for food”

“Food is so personal - I mean someone is talking to you when people are cooking for you. I like to hear an identifiable voice.”

“I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.”

“Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;And now, instead of mounting barbed steedsTo fright the souls of fearful adversaries,He capers nimbly in a lady's chamberTo the lascivious pleasing of a lute.”

“A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.”