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

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

— 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

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

— Charles Dudley Warner

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

— 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

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

— Charles Dudley Warner

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

— Charles Dudley Warner

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

— Charles Dudley Warner

The toad, without which no garden would be complete.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

— Charles Dudley Warner

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

— Charles Dudley Warner

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.

— Charles Dudley Warner

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently!

— 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

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

— Charles Dudley Warner

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

— 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.

— Charles Dudley Warner