"It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night"

"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"

"A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle"

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"

"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse"

"Get off your horse and drink your milk"

"What a nice night for an evening"

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people"

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night"