“Hands were things to keep away from. They hurled stones, wielded sticks and clubs and whips, administered slaps and clouts, and, when they touched him, were cunning to hurt with pinch and twist and wrench.”

Jack London, White Fang

“Dogs are extraordinarily shrewd, and notice everything, every step you take.”

Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman

“They’re pretty wise, them dogs.”

Jack London, White Fang

“A dog, a woman, an’ a walnut tree,

Th’ more yeh beat ‘em, th’ better they be!”

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

“I’d suspected for a long time that dogs are cleverer than human beings.”

Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman