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

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms.

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.