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

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.