Date: 1590?, 1623

"O, know'st thou not his looks are my soul 's food? / Pity the dearth that I have pinèd in / By longing for that food so long a time. "

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1597

"Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1598

"The mind shall banquet, though the body pine."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1598

"Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book. He hath not eat paper, as it were, he hath not drunk ink. His intellect is not replenished, he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts."

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1606

"[H]aving sucked and drawne the good" (the "marrow and spirit") from books, one must "feed his mind therewith, informe his judgement, instruct and direct his conscience and his opinions, rectifie his will."

— Charron, Pierre (1541-1603); Lennard, Sampson (d. 1633)

Date: 1610

Man "into himself can draw / All, all his faith can swallow, or reason chaw ... All the round world, to man is but a pill."

— Donne, John (1572-1631)

Date: 1611

"The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself."

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God."

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips."

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness."

— Author Unknown