“Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.”
“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”
“It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.”
“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals themselves.”
“What was the fun of being upper-class if you had to work so hard to appear bored all the time?”