Will Carleton > Quotes

“Autumn Days
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.”
― Will Carleton

“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.”
― Will Carleton

“To appreciate heaven well it is good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.”
― Will Carleton

“For life's a cloud, e'en take it as we will,
The changing wind ne'er banishes or lifts;
The pangs of grief but make it darker still,
And happiness is nothing but its rifts.
("Rifts in the Cloud")”
― Will Carleton, Farm Legends