You are softening toward the young rascal because he is ill, and because he says he likes cats." "It is an engaging quality, Emerson." "That depends," said Emerson darkly, "on how he likes them.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

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.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.