Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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

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

Life is no way to treat an animal.

Imitate the ass in his love to his master.

I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature—not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

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

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

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

What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?

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

It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.

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