Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever you want to have a really good cup of chocolate, make it the day before, in a porcelain coffeepot, and let it set. The night's rest will concentrate it and give it a velvety quality which will make it better. Our good God cannot possibly take offense at this little refinement, since he himself is everything that is most perfect.'