Sooner barbarity than boredom.

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

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

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.