I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.

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.

The 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!

My great panacea for making society at once better and more enjoyable would be to cultivate greater sincerity.

If a woman be herself pure and noble-hearted, she will come into every circle as a person does into a heated room, who carries with him the freshness of the woods where he has been walking.

The 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.

Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.