The Spider as an Artist Has never been employed- Though his surpassing Merit Is freely certified.

Where's the state beneath the firmament That doth excel the bees for government?

Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as well as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

Crickets, ticks, gnats, chiggers... grass bugs, rotten-timber bugs, leaf bugs, water bugs... everything with six legs and wings and stings was whirring or whining or chirruping.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.