Sooner barbarity than boredom.

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.

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.

Dream is the roadmap but hope is the guiding light in the way of life.

It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person needed might be the last thing they could ever want.

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

I hate everything that is driven by fashion.

Many times I had to dig deep and perform. All of that adversity helped me and drove me to want to be the best.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

Let not his mode of raising cash seem strange, Although he fleeced the flags of every nation, For into a prime minister but change His title, and 'tis nothing but taxation.

Things come apart much easier than they go together.