Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

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

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.

Yes I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.

Modesty was made for the ugly.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Jesus said our souls are more valuable than all the rest of the world put together.

If we aren't trustworthy to our own words and values, why should we expect others to trust us with their resources, let alone with their lives?

Let us compete with ourselves, not with others.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

That love which does not build a foundation on good sense is doomed.

I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved.

My God is not improbable to me. He has no need of a creation story for himself or to be fine-tuned by something else.

Every single house has had death visit.

Ideas that spread win.

People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.