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.

A meal without wine is like a day without sun

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

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

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders and our banquets.