If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.

Peculiar or not, it is my idea of pleasure. Why, why else do you lead this life you don't enjoy it? Don't talk of duty to me; you men always have some high-sounding excuse for indulging yourselves. You go gallivanting over the earth, climbing mountains, looking for the sources of the Nile; and expect women to sit dully at home embroidering. I embroider very badly. I think I would excavate rather well.

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson