Will Carleton Quotations

There's lots of people-this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.

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.

Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. 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.

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

Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree

The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread.

And that was the way The deuce was to pay As it always is, at the close of the day That gave us