You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

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.

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