We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

It is good people who make good places.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals knowledge . . . which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.