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

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

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

‘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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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