But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

But where's the wild dog that has praised his fleas?

One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a man's eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious of many things that we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

My only rule: If you show up with fleas, I kill the owner and the dog.