"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment"

"There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress"

"If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse"

"Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest"

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him"

"A good horse should be seldom spurred"

"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse"

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

"A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries"