Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
We only do well the things we like doing.
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.