a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

His masculinity was only too apparent

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

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.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.