“How inestimably important in its moral results – and therefore how praiseworthy in itself – is the act of eating and drinking! The social virtues center in the stomach. A man who is not a better husband, father, and brother after dinner than before is, digestively speaking, an incurably vicious man.”

“How inestimably important in its moral results – and therefore how praiseworthy in itself – is the act of eating and drinking! The social virtues center in the stomach. A man who is not a better husband, father, and brother after dinner than before is, digestively speaking, an incurably vicious man.”

— Wilkie Collins