If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.