The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.

- Margaret Benson

Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

- Margaret Benson

... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge body of traditiona…

- Margaret Benson

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

- Margaret Benson

All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

- Margaret Benson

apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction …

- Margaret Benson

The spiritual is not the emotional; we may receive spiritual things emotionally, but to receive them rationally we must receive them with the mind an…

- Margaret Benson

He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.

- Margaret Benson

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

- Margaret Benson