A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

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

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.