A meal without wine is like a day without sun

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.

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.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.