The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.
Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
It is a difficult matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical, methodical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.
When we love - we grow
Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.
The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
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 arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.
It is gentle manners which prove so irresistible in women.
Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so human, that they almost frighten you, for it is impossible to believe that a soul is not there.
The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.
Modesty was made for the ugly.
What well-bred woman would refuse her heart to a man who had just saved her life? Not one; and gratitude is a short cut which speedily leads to love.
[A cat] will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society.
Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
Books follow morals, and not morals books.
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