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…

- Charles Dudley Warner

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

- Charles Dudley Warner

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

- 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 thous…

- Charles Dudley Warner

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

- Charles Dudley Warner

Politics make strange bedfellows.

- Charles Dudley Warner

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 di…

- Charles Dudley Warner