Henry Ward Beecher
American scholar, social reformer, abolitionist
(1813-1887)
"For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgement Seat and say "I have loved as truly and I have lived as decently as my dog." And yet we call them 'only brutes'!"