“The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pre...”

“No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.”

“Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.”

“What is reading but silent conversation.”

“When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.”

“Cats ask plainly for what they want.”

“If you want to be happy, work with all your heart.”

“I do my best thinking at night when everyone else is sleeping. No interruptions. No noise. I like the feeling of being awake when no one else is.”

“I feel like Ive been split open and stuffed with sunshine.”

“No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.”

“If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.”

“I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.”