To my dear and honoured Mother, whose life, no less than her pen, has…

[W]e shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.

Oh! if people knew what a comfort to horses a light hand is.

[D]o your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.

[T]hey always think they can improve upon nature and mend what God has made.

[A] bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.

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 …