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

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

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

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.

Animals are good to think with.

Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.