"Animals are rational; in most of them logos is imperfect, but it is certainly not wholly lacking. So if, as our oppon…"

"A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel."

"We have an easy time thinking of animals as animals in part because they smell like animals. But what are you suppose…"

"'Tis from the resemblance of the external actions of animals to those we ourselves perform, that we judge their inter…"

"There are many people who have undergone great suffering who seem to possess knowledge of the deepest recesses of hum…"

"Lest I slight any creature, I must also mention the domestic animals, the beasts and birds from whom I have learned. …"

"But if man's affection be one of passion, then it is moved also in regard to other animals: for since the passion of …"

"Will you, laying aside all partiality, consider in the silence of your thoughts that we [humans] are creatures either…"

"Oh, God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, our brothers the animals to whom Thou gave…"

"I think that when friendship and perception of kinship ruled everything, no one killed any creature, because people t…"