Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
From Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.
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.
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown.
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
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.
The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.
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