Anna Sewell

“If we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier.”

“I have heard men say that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing.”

“Ignorance is the root of all evil.”

“If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.”

“Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp?”

“A horse that has not been broken in is often as useless as a boy who has not been taught his letters.”

“It is good people who make good places.”

“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”

“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.”

“I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.”

“He said that God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but he had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.”

“My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”

“Do you know why this world is as bad as it is? It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doers to light.”