For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.

The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.

There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.