The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.