Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you.

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

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

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

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

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