The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Read Quote
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. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Read Quote
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Read Quote
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Read Quote
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Read Quote
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Read Quote
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense – sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Read Quote
Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Read Quote
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. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Read Quote
