"You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious...." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.”

“I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundredpound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!”

“It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.”

“Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.”

“The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?”

“Snakes have no arms. That's why they don't wear vests.”

“Every puppy should have a boy.”

“Dogs wait for us faithfully.”

“A dog has the soul of a philosopher.”