Charles Dudley Warner

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship…

— Charles Dudley Warner

There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may…

— Charles Dudley Warner

The onion and its satin wrappings is among the most beautiful of vegetables and is the only one that represents the essence…

— Charles Dudley Warner

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

— Charles Dudley Warner

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

— 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…

— Charles Dudley Warner

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Knowldeg is the mother of all virtue all vice proceeds from ignorence

— Charles Dudley Warner

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Politics make strange bedfellows.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

— 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,…

— Charles Dudley Warner

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

— Charles Dudley Warner

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

— Charles Dudley Warner

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden...…

— Charles Dudley Warner

“Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual…

— Charles Dudley Warner

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life -…

— Charles Dudley Warner

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

— Charles Dudley Warner

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

— Charles Dudley Warner

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

— Charles Dudley Warner

In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful…

— Charles Dudley Warner

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

— Charles Dudley Warner

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

— Charles Dudley Warner

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It…

— Charles Dudley Warner

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

— Charles Dudley Warner