If a thing is right, it can be done, and if it is wrong, it can be done without; and a good man will find a way. - Anna Sewell

[A] bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.

The first place that I can well remember, was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a ploughed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master's house, which stood by the roadside; at the top of the meadow was a plantation of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook overhung by a steep bank.

[I]f they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.