Writer History American essayist Humorist Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - Charles Dudley Warner
Excellence Value The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. - Charles Dudley Warner
Deep Man World 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. - 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
Conformity We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. - 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
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