I am never afraid of what I know.

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

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

My troubles are over, and I am finally home.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

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.

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.