Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.