One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that an….

As love is union, it knows no extremes of distance..

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less..

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?.

But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may phi….

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel..

Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study and ….

... privation is the source of appetite..

Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked..

Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?.

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity..

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle….

I walk beneath your pens, and am not what I truly am, but what you'd prefer to imagine me..

The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the sin?.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear..

One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper..

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!.

I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Af….

Rare is he who will concede genius..