What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.