The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat.

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.

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

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.

What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.