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

Happiness is a warm puppy.

What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

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

Life is no way to treat an animal.

An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.

Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

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.

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.

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.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.