Edward Topsell quotes:

God himself must needs be traduced, if there is no unicorn in the world.

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.

Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.

Some learned writers . . . have compared a Scorpion to an Epigram . . . because as the sting of the Scorpion lyeth in the tayl, so the force and virtue of an epigram is in the conclusion.

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