It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence.

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

Holy Istanbul! Your name is the most enchanting one of all names which enchants me.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen - sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.