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

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

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

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

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

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

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

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

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

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

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