The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?