Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

A man should ever, as much as in him lieth, be ready booted to take his journey, and above all things look he have then nothing to do but with himself.

Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead.

Saying is one thing and doing is another

My appetite comes to me while eating.