[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.
Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.
Books follow morals, and not morals books.
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.