In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

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.

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.

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.