Logic is the art of going wrong with conditions.

Cats seem to go on a principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one’s country, to society, and to civilization itself.

Not to have known – as most men have not – either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one’s self. Not to have known one’s self is to have known no one.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It’s a losing game, but we keep on trying.

Up up and quit your books’ is not an adjuration commonly thought advisable in universities but there are occasions – as for instance, when studying Wordsworth when it might be advisable.

In a cat’s eye, all things belong to cats.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man’s existence.