- "Bread is the staff of life, and wheat the staff of bread."
- "The great secret of health and long life is to live on the smallest amount of food that will support the body."
- "Man is no longer a frugivorous or herbivorous animal; a carnivorous diet has brought him to the grave's edge, with his teeth decayed, his gums rotten, and his body diseased from constant gormandizing of a corrupting, putrescent diet.'"
- "Eating three meals a day is unnatural and harmful. Two at most should ever be taken, and the last should be eaten by two o'clock."
- "The true mode of life is to eat no animal food for the food of animals is corruptible, heating, stimulating and productive of disease."