"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
— Mark Twain

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
— Mark Twain

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
— Josh Billings

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
— Will Rogers

"You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
— Woodrow Wilson

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
— Roger Caras