recipe quotes

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

-Jane Austen
  Mansfield Park, ch.22.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

- Charles Lamb
  Letter to Thomas Manning,15 Feb. Collected in E  W Marrs Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, vol.2 (1975).