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

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

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

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

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

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

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.