72 Quotes by Anna Sewell

I hope you will grow up gentle and good, and never learn bad ways; do your work with a good will, lift your feet up well when you trot, and never bite or kick even in play.

Los hombres siempre creen poder mejorar a la Naturaleza y corregir la obra de Dios.

Willie always speaks to me when he can, and treats me as his special friend. My ladies have promised that I shall never be sold, and so I have nothing to fear; and here my story ends. 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.

Is it not better," she said, "to lead a good fashion than to follow a bad one?

Una elección es cosa muy seria, o al menos debería serlo, y cada uno debería votar según su propia conciencia y dejar que el vecino haga lo mismo.

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.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

I am never afraid of what I know.

Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals knowledge . . . which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.