It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

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

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

Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart

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

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

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