It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.
Modesty was made for the ugly.
Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.
I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.