But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in ….

A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being..

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat..

Friendship takes time..

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests..

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it ….

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of bo….

The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts..

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisa….

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alter….

the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showin….

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last be….

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect..

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization..

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there..

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance..

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting..

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania..

The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs….

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times..

History is not written in the interests of morality..