If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave..

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind..

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly..

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity..

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look..

When we love - we grow.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution..

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist..

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing..

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest..

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.

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved..

The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always s….

Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of his gaze startles you..

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 nea….

Books follow morals, and not morals books..

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!.

Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen..

To extract beauty from one's own milieu is one of the most difficult tasks of art..

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument..

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has ….