Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

The pleasure of the table belongs to all ages, to all conditions, to all countries, and to all areas; it mingles with all other pleasures, and remains at last to console us for their departure.

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.

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

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

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.