The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.

The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one of his main ideas, you know, that the males of almost all animals have stronger passions than the females. Since then we've learned a thing or two. At any rate, the female snake is right there when spring arrives in the woods.