The cat is a dilettante in fur.

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

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

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.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

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.