People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

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