“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.”

“There’s no condiment like appetite.”

“The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.””

“Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry”

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man”

“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man”