17 quotes
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.
Black Beauty (1877)
Oh! if people knew what a comfort to horses a light hand is.
Black Beauty (1877)
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.
Black Beauty (1877)
To my dear and honoured Mother, whose life, no less than her pen, has been devoted to the welfare of others, this little book is affectionately dedicated.
Black Beauty (1877)
[T]hey always think they can improve upon nature and mend what God has made.
Black Beauty (1877)
[A] bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.
Black Beauty (1877)
I am never afraid of what I know.
Black Beauty (1877)
[W]e shall all have to be judged according to our works, whether they be towards man or towards beast.
Black Beauty (1877)
[D]o your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.
Black Beauty (1877)
My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my old friends under the apple trees.
Black Beauty (1877)
If you in the morning
Throw minutes away,
You can't pick them up
In the course of a day.
You may hurry and scurry,
And flurry and worry,
You've lost them forever,
Forever and aye.
Black Beauty (1877)
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.
Black Beauty (1877)
[W]e 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.
Black Beauty (1877)
[T]here 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.
Black Beauty (1877)
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-doer to light.
Black Beauty (1877)
[I]f they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.
Black Beauty (1877)
Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know.
Black Beauty (1877)