Cats, like men, are flatterers.

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

Cats ask plainly for what they want.

The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.