I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte TaineIn 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.
Hippolyte TaineThere are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
Hippolyte TaineA fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.
Hippolyte Taine