I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.

old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.

Write one good clean sentence and put a period at the end of it. Then write another one.