“Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.”

“There are few pleasures which loosen the tongue as much as that of sharing wine, glass in hand.”

“Wine, today as yesterday and tomorrow, continues to symbolize dual communion: on the one hand with nature and the soil, through the mystery of plant growth and the miracle of fermentation, and on the other with man, who wanted wine and was able to make it by means of knowledge, hard work, patience, care and love; for nothing worthwhile is achieved without love.”

“Show me how you drink and I will tell you who you are.”

“A winetaster carries his tasting equipment with him wherever he goes, but it is at home that it is most finely tuned.”

“As long as one remains curious, one makes progress; it is when you think you know everything that you are actually out of date.”

“Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;”