It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
– Charles Dudley Warner
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
– Charles Dudley Warner
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
– Charles Dudley Warner
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
– Charles Dudley Warner
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
– Charles Dudley Warner
There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.
– Charles Dudley Warner
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
– Charles Dudley Warner
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
– Charles Dudley Warner
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
– Charles Dudley Warner
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
– Charles Dudley Warner
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.
– Charles Dudley Warner
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
– Charles Dudley Warner
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.