Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

When they are among us cats are angels

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.