Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.

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.

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

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

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

It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.

One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character; he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.