Will Carleton Quotes (11 Quotes)

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

We arg'ed the thing at breakfast, we arg'ed the thing at tea, And the more we arg'ed the question, the more we didn't agree

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell.

If we who have sailed togetherFlit out of each other's view,The world will sail on, I think,Just as it used to do.

Underneath an apple-treeSat a maiden and her loverAnd the thoughts within her heYearned, in silence, to discover.Round them danced the sunbeams bright,Green the grass-lawn stretched before themWhile the apple blossoms whiteHung in rich profusion o'er them.

Careful with fire, is good advice, we know; Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God himself can't kill them when they're said.

Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out.

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.