“Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.”

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

Thou hast seen nothing yet.

Whoever is ignorant is vulgar.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Seek for good, but expect evil.

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.

The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

Where envy reigns virtue can’t exist, and generosity doesn’t go with meanness.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

Think before thou speakest.

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

Be brief, for no talk can please when too long. Being prepared is half the victory.

Other men’s pains are easily borne.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt.

Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence, no matter whether it be from the hand of father, husband, or brother; for anyone who does so eat her bread places herself in the power of the person from whom she takes it.

The Eucharist prepares us for a place in eternity, because it is the Bread of Heaven.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.