There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.

A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.

Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all. 

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.

Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.

Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.

A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.

There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.