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

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.

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

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.

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

Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.