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

To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.

Every cure of obesity must begin with these three essential precepts:discretion in eating, moderation in sleeping, and exercise.

An intelligently planned feast is like a summing up of the whole world, where each part is represented by its envoys.

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.

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.