Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.

It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.

White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.

Modesty was made for the ugly.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

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