When my self is not with you, it is nowhere..

Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it….

We fluctuate long between love and hatred before we can arrive at tranquillity..

the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall..

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits..

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous..

Tea seems to tenderize cheap cuts of beef. After cooking chuck, boiling beef and brisket (I even mixed rib eye, which is ever so cheap, and it's grea….

Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I sha….

If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; ….

Ever tried putting a caramel candy in a cup of hot tea? It's excellent! Not only does it give a little different taste to the tea, but it takes the p….

The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage….

Frozen peas can be shelled very fast with a wringer-type washer. Put a pan on one side of the wringer to catch the peas and the pods go on through. Y….

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and emp….

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest..

it is not the deed but the intention that makes the crime..

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes negle….

What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart..

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!.