Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

We treat our dogs as if they were 'almost human': that is why they really become 'almost human' in the end.

All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.

We all want progress, but if you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.