Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

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

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

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