When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

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.

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.

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

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.