In general Mankind, since the improvement of Cookery, eat about twice as much as Nature requires.
You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
