For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

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.

Gluttony is mankind's exclusive prerogative.

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

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.

Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye