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

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

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

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.

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

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

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.