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

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.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.

Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

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