The dyspeptic and the drunkard do not know how to eat or drink.

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.

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

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

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating