Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

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.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

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

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.