A great step toward independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

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

The belly is the reason why man does not mistake himself for a god.

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

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

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

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

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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

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

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.