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

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

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.

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.

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.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.