Writer Being Power American essayist 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
First Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. - Charles Dudley Warner
History Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - Charles Dudley Warner
Chess Nothing Man There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman. - Charles Dudley Warner
Knowledge World There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. - Charles Dudley Warner
Man Love How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man. - Charles Dudley Warner
Weather Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. - 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