The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

Every man carries within himself a world made up of all that he has seen and loved; and it is to this world that he returns, incessantly, though he may pass through and seem to inhabit a world quite foreign to it.

The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.