Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

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

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.