It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.