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.

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.

In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.

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

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

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

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

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.

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

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