"If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven"

"Better one's House be too little one day than too big all the Year after"

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane"

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things"

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

"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen"

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die"

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character"

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us"