“all that I know is that I believe inthe sound of music and therunning of a horse. all else is squabble.”

“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”

“When a waggon with a train of beautiful horses, furnished with red trappings and clear-sounding bells came by us with its music, I believe we could all three have sung to the bells, so cheerful were the influences around.... We had stopped, and the waggon had stopped too. Its music changed as the horses came to a stand, and subsided to a gentle tinkling, except when a horse tossed his head, or shook himself, and sprinkled off a little shower of bellringing.”

“Man, dog, horse. With enough hurt we all sound the same.”

“A horse is a quadruped, and quadruped's latin for beast, as everybody that's gone through grammar knows, or else what's the use in having grammars at all?”

“I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.”