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

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

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

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf. 

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

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

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

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

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

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard for their own interest.

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

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