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.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

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

At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at a dinner where there was not a pièce truffée? Who has not felt his mouth water in hearing truffles a la provencale spoken of? In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

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

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.