“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”

“Good fences make good neighbors.”

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”

“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”

“Our life runs down in sending up the clock.The brook runs down in sending up our life.The sun runs down in sending up the brook.And there is something sending up the sun.It is this backward motion toward the source,Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in,The tribute of the current to the source.It is from this in nature we are from.It is most us.”

“He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors.”