Desire grows by what it feeds on.

I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.

The only thing I envy about a cat is its purr," remarked Dr. Blythe once, listening to Doc's resonant melody. "It is the most contented sound in the world.

Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.