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

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."

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

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.