“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”

“When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction.”

“A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.”

“Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.”

“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”

“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.”