SO GOOD QUOTES

But go to the crib, thou glutton, and there it will be found that when the charger is clean, yet nature’s rules were not prevaricated; the beast eats up all his provisions because they are natural and simple ; or if he leaves any, it is because he desires no more than till his needs be served ; and neither can a man (unless he be diseased in body or in spirit, in affection or in habit) eat more of natural and simple food than to the satisfaction of his natural necessities. He that drinks a draught or two of water and cools his thirst, drinks no more till his thirst returns; but he that drinks wine, drinks again longer than it is needful, even so long as it is pleasant. Nature best provides for herself when she spreads her own table ; but when men have gotten superinduced habits, and new necessities, art that brought them in must maintain them, but “wantonness and folly wait at the table, and sickness and death take away.”

—Rev. Jeremy Taylor, The House of Feasting The Whole Works of the Rt. Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Volume 1