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.
THE BUTCHER DIDN’T GET IT
“Miss Barton, the butcher has been here today. He wants to buy the little Jersey calf; offered me $5.00 for it,” said the manager of the Red Cross home, “and I told him he could have it.” “But he can’t,—why didn’t you ask me about it?” “Well, I knew we couldn’t keep it; we need the milk—” “But the calf needs the milk too, and I tell you that the calf is not going to be killed.” “But I have sold it.” “That doesn’t make any difference; I haven’t—and it’s my calf.”