Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

A dog's best friend is his illiteracy.

The trouble with a kitten is That Eventually it becomes a Cat.

A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

A dog will never forget the crumb thou gavest him, though thou mayst afterwards throw a hundred stones at his head.

There is one respect in which brutes show real wisdom when compared with us-I mean their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal noise.

Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria, old as he is.