I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.

Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

But what are wishes, compared with longings?

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

Children driven good are apt to be driven mad.