Of all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

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

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.

It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.

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

An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.

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.

Imitate the ass in his love to his master.

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