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

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

‘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.

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

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

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

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