Who said “Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”?

“To eat is to appropriate by destruction.”

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”

“He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.”

“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.”

“Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.”

“I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.”

“The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.”

“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.”

“As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!”

“Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.”