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

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.

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.

Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

A relationship with lots of pain, it's not a relationship that will last long.

What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets?

Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.

No one ever loved anyone the way that person wanted to be loved.

I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.