If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished.

If I had not been so great an invalid, I should not have done so much as I have accomplished.

The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.

Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.

It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.