Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man

Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.

It's the devil who pulls the strings that make us dance

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.