Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.

Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

Lying, like license, has its degrees.

All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.