He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction is due to our want of perception, since our knowledge of laws and causes is so small compared to their total sum.

But none of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.

The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.