LXIV

Clara Barton—intelligent and reclaiming, her leading attributes.

Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.

Pity it is to slay the meanest thing. Hood.

Man is an aristocrat among animals. Heine.

The merciful man doeth good to his own soul. Proverbs.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to kill animals. Tolstoi.

Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men.

Joseph Addison.

Could we understand the language of animals, how instructive a dialogue of dogs would be. Eudoxes.

Animals, in our degenerate age, are every day perishing under the hands of barbarity, without notice, without mercy. A. Dean.

Surely the sensibility of brutes entitles them to a milder treatment than they usually meet with from hard and unthinking wretches. A. Dean.