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

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

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

Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.

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

Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.

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