Anna Sewell

‘a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse

work with a good will

fashion is one of the wickedest things in the world.

remember, we shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be toward man or toward beast.”

thought people did not value their animals half enough nor make friends of them as they ought to do.

Then he talked to all the boys very seriously about cruelty, and said how hard-hearted and cowardly it was to hurt the weak and the helpless; but what stuck in my mind was this, he said that cruelty was the devil’s own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end.

On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God’s mark.”

shone like a rook’s wing. I

I could not say “good-by”, so I put my nose into his hand; he patted me kindly, and I left my first home.

stood a little fat gray pony,