Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warner
Charles Dudley Warnerwas an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth12 September 1829
CountryUnited States of America
nature faults reform
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
flower men he-man
There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.
emotional world earth
The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.
responsibility garden awful
A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
men garden race
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
philosophy garden vegetables
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.
hate justice want
You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.
spring hoe matter
Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.
men chess disgusting
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
money world absolutes
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
men garden world
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
being-different half conformity
We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
revolution elements world
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
women imagination sentimental
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.