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
men garden world
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
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.
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.
morning believe boys
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.
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.
music voice singing
One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.
friendship regret years
One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.
marriage husband taken
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.
friendship wise men
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
selfish opportunity people
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
loss circles confusion
The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.