“You must have the bird in your heart before you can find it in the bush.”

“The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit”

“The day is done, and the darkness, falls from the wings of night, as a feather is wafted downward, from an eagle in his flight”

“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of the cats is infinitely superior. ”

“Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives”

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”