Edward Topsell Quotes

4 Sourced Quotes

There is no creature among all the Beasts of the world which hath so great and ample demonstration of the power and wisdom of almighty God as the Elephant.

Edward Topsell

Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.

Edward Topsell

If you will have the endowments of his minde described, he is a political and flocking or regal creature, subject to Monarchy, laborious, a lover of his young, and a lover of his neighbor, of a very quarrelsome disposition, and very prone to choler.

Edward Topsell

Of all Insects, Bees are the principal and are chiefly to be admired, being the only creature of that kinde framed for the nourishment of Man; but the rest are procreated either to be useful in physic, or for delight of the eyes, the pleasure of the ears, or the completing and ornament of the body.

Edward Topsell