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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking unless it be lobster salad and champagne, the only truly feminine and becoming viands.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

What is food to one is to others bitter poison.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

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