Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection!

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

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

Sooner barbarity than boredom.