I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

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

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.

If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow.

He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end. On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark.