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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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