Life is no way to treat an animal.

Imitate the ass in his love to his master.

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

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

Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.

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.

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

Cows are among the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them—and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.