When you have breakfasted well and fully, if you will drink a big cup of chocolate at the end you will have digested the whole perfectly three hours later, and you will still be able to dine. Because of my scientific enthusiasm and the sheer force of my eloquence I have persuaded a number of ladies to try this, although they were convinced it would kill them; they have always found themselves in fine shape indeed, and have not forgotten to give the Professor his rightful due.

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

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.

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.