Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

The fate of a nation depends on the way that they eat.

In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.