Fish was cheap along Galilee, and this, with unbolted bread, gave them plenty of phosphorus for brain food.

These early ministers were never invited out to late suppers, with chicken salad and doughnuts.

Nobody ever embroidered slippers for the big foot of Simon Peter, the fisherman preacher.

Tea parties, with hot waffles, at ten o'clock at night, make namby-pamby ministers; but good hours and substantial diet, that furnish nitrates for the muscles, and phosphates for the brain, and carbonates for the whole frame, prepare a man for effective work.

When the water is low, the mill-wheel goes slow; but a full race, and how fast the grists are ground! In a man the arteries are the mill-race and the brain the wheel, and the practical work of life is the grist ground.
The reason our soldiers failed in some of the battles was because their stomachs had for several days been innocent of everything but "hard tack." See that your minister has a full haversack.