I've always been mad about cats.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance, which is more amiable than beauty.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

That [sex] was the most fun I ever had without laughing.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible and perhaps altogether unseen.

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches to foreign nations and to the next ages.

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