“To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.”

“To be together is for us to be at once free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character - perfect concord is the result.”

“We talk of humans behaving indistinguishably from animals; this view is an insult to animals, as they would not treat other creatures of their own kind the way we at times behave towards each other.”

“I think of animals in cages, pressed close against each other.”

“If you talk to the animals they will talk with youand you will know each other. If you do not talk to themyou will not know them, and what you do not knowyou will fear. What one fears one destroys.”

“I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other.”