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
fire simplicity world
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
wall lying trying
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.
men world four
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.
running dirty taken
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.
sweet apples fire
Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
christmas lying excellence
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value
life simple journey
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
travel life-is-like delight
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
food bitter culinary
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
faults world persons
The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.
dirty oats pie
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
believe facts doe
The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.
might potatoes
What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!
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.