--BURTON.
I have come to the conclusion that mankind consume twice too much
food.--SYDNEY SMITH.
Fat paunches have lean pates; and dainty bits
Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.
--SHAKESPEARE.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who
strangle those whom they embrace.--SENECA.
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I
fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other
innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature
delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps
to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and
flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not
the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a
mushroom can escape him.--ADDISON.
GOD.--In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His actions
labor to see Him; that will make thee fear Him; this will move thee to
love Him; the fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, and the
knowledge of God is the perfection of love.--QUARLES.
God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our
actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power
of our whole souls.--MASSILLON.
God governs the world, and we have only to do our duty wisely, and
leave the issue to Him.--JOHN JAY.
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is like
the beasts in his body; and if he is not like God in his spirit, he is
an ignoble creature.
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