Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

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

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.

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.

An ounce of joy is the equivalent of a ton of happiness.

Have a variety of interests. ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live not only longest but happiest.

Well, as my dad would say, it means she’s out of this shithole.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

The modern superstition is that we're free of superstition.

The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.

When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.

What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.