He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

’Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.

Most vegetarians I ever saw looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

To safeguard one’s health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

‘Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

No lyric poems live long or please many people which are written by drinkers of water.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.