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?

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.

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.

Oh! if people knew what a comfort to a horse a light hand is.

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.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?