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

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.

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.

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.

Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.

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

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

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.

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.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

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