"Who knew that dog saliva can mend a broken heart?"

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten-thousand stars how not to dance..."

"I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long."

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."

"The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain."

"Quality has to be caused, not controlled."

"MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."

"Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character."

"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."

"It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish."

"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

"Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest."