A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.