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

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.