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

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

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

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 eat is to appropriate by destruction.

For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

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

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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