Agnes Repplier

"It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning."

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding."

"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals."

"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more."

"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there."