If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it