The horse is not only a fiery racer, but displays all the noble
characteristics of fidelity, gratitude, attachment, and compassion. It
also exhibits a talent for understanding, has an almost unfailing
memory, and a very rare docility. With patience and kind treatment the
horse can be trained to go through quite complicated feats of memory and
perception. That it possesses also an accurate sense of time is clear
from the facility with which it can be taught to walk, trot, and dance
to music, or take part in concerted evolutions. It is very timid and
cautious and suspicious of every new sight or sound; while in respect of
moral qualities it is scarcely too much to say that horses are as
diverse as men.