Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

There are ... two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

The cat seldom interferes with other people's rights. His intelligence keeps him from doing many of the fool things that complicate life.

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.