Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.