When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

Cats ask plainly for what they want.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.