To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

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.

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

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