The most indispensable qualification of a cook is punctuality. The same must be said of guests.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

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.

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.

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

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.