Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.