Writer First American essayist Humorist Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. - Charles Dudley Warner
Power Being 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. - Charles Dudley Warner
History Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - Charles Dudley Warner
Weather Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. - Charles Dudley Warner
Conversation Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. - Charles Dudley Warner
Practice Experience World One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one. - 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