The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no doubt in another million years, a good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Greatness is not the fruit of birth, but of effort: it is not attained but by the greatest exertions; whereas to become insignificant costs no pains: to raise a stone to the top of a mountain requires great labor, but it will descend with the utmost velocity.

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight...

A dog knows the places he is thrown food.

The chicken that digs for food will not sleep hungry.

All sorrows are good (or are less) with bread.