A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.

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.

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

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

Happiness is a warm puppy.

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.

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.

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

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 is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.

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