Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Man is the lowest animal.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion –- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.

France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country

If man had created man he would be ashamed of his performance