I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.
Frances Power CobbeThe nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!
Frances Power CobbeOur sex bears the disgrace not only of a great deal of genuine poltroonery, but also of much which is mere affectation.
Frances Power CobbeThe time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.
Frances Power Cobbe