One day through the primeval wood A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. . . . …

- Sam Walter Foss

I say the very things that make the greatest StirAn' the most interestin' things, are things that did n't occur.

- Sam Walter Foss

W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say hullo. Say hullo and how d'ye do, How's the world a-usin' you? . W'en you travel through the strange…

- Sam Walter Foss

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

- Sam Walter Foss

Just drop your bucket where you are.

- Sam Walter Foss

Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

- Sam Walter Foss

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament…

- Sam Walter Foss

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

- Sam Walter Foss

Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

- Sam Walter Foss