Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

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.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.