Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.

Gastronomers of the year 1825, who find sateity in the lap of abundance, and dream of some newly-made dishes, you will not enjoy the discoveries which science has in store for the year 1900, such as foods drawn from the mineral kingdom, liqueurs produced by the pressure of a hundred atmospheres; you will never see the importations which travelers yet unborn will bring to you from that half of the globe which has still to be discovered or explored. How I pity you!

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

If one swallows a cup of chocolate only three hours after a copious lunch, everything will be perfectly digested and there will still be room for dinner.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.