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

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

What I write is not for little girls.

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

Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.