It has been shown as proof positive that carefully prepared chocolate is as healthful a food as it is pleasant; that it is nourishing and easily digested... that it is above all helpful to people who must do a great deal of mental work.

The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.

Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.

Gourmandism is an act of judgment, by which we prefer things which have a pleasant taste to those which lack this quality.

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?