Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.

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

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.

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.