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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

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

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

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