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

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

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

Animals are good to think with.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

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

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.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.

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

One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character; he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.

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.