Night will always remain a cat's magical, fanciful time.

If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

When family really needed you, nothing else mattered.

[On visitors after having a new baby...] "Put a lock on the door, barricade it if you have to. No one gets past that front door unless they come bearing one of two things: food or cleaning products!

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?