"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"

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

"Get off your horse and drink your milk"

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

"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"

"We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse"

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

"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children"

"Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians"

"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"