“No Prefect of Police believes that a cat can turn into a lion; nevertheless the thing happens...”

“For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.”

“I'd rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.”

“I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.”

“What is the cat?” he exclaimed. “It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, ‘I’ve made a blunder.’ And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.”

“Above all, you can believe in Providence in either of two ways, either as thirst believes in the orange, or as the ass believes in the whip.”

“Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.”