Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.

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

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.

If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.

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

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

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.