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

I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.

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.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

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

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye