The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.

A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.