The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.