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

Cats, like men, are flatterers.

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

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.