There is nothing truly beautiful but that which can never be of any use whatsoever; everything useful is ugly, for it is the expression of some need, and man's needs are ignoble and disgusting like his own poor and infirm nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.