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?

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.