A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

Worry is the stomach's worst poison.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

The heart’s capacity to love is infinite

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.