The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinFor unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'
Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinVegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin