Writer American essayist Humorist editor We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. - Charles Dudley Warner
First Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. - Charles Dudley Warner
Open Today World Will 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. - Charles Dudley Warner
Family Time Being World Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. - Charles Dudley Warner
History Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - Charles Dudley Warner
People 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
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. - Julien Benda
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. - Dean Inge