[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, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.
Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!