Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye

Animals feed themselves; men eat; but only wise men know the art of eating

It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little dried-up machines, stunted and old at the age of twenty... once saw a man in London, in Leicester Square, who had been crippled by immoderate indulgence in coffee; he was no longer in any pain, having grown accustomed to his condition, and had cut himself down to five or six cups a day.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.