There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.

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

It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.

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

Life is no way to treat an animal.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all. 

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

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

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

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

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.

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