All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

At the table of a gentleman living in the Chausee d'Antin was served up an Arles sausage of enormous size. "Will you accept a slice?" the host asked a lady who was sitting next to him; "you see it has come from the right factory."It is really very large," said the lady, casting on it a roguish glance; "What a pity it is unlike anything."

I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

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.