Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

By reason of its soporigous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues the principal foundation of the universal tribe of Sallets, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties... including beneficial influences on morals, temperance, and chastity.

The Hellish and dismal cloud of...Coal...perpetually imminent over (London) ...that her inhabitants breathe nothing but impure and thick mist...corrupting the lungs and disordering the entire habit of their bodies; so the Catarrhs,...Cough, and Consumption, range more in this one City, than in the whole Earth besides.

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

A gardener's work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next.

Freindshipp is beyond all relations of flesh and blood, because it is less materiall.