“Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.”

“A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category — gentlemen masquerading as beasts?”

“What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.”

“Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.”
Bruta quoque animalia et vagae aves, in easdem pedicas retiaque non incidunt.

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”

“No wild beasts are so dangerous to men as Christians are to one another.”

“A monster, which the Blatant beast men call,
A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.”

“Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.”

“If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.”

“Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.”