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.

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.

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

Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.

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.