Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue. Charles Dudley Warner More Quotes by Charles Dudley Warner More Quotes From Charles Dudley Warner You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature. Charles Dudley Warner diversityhatejustice The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. Charles Dudley Warner essentialsgardenmen The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation. Charles Dudley Warner gardenleadershipphilosophy 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 satisfactory thing a man can do. Charles Dudley Warner gardenmenlife A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it. Charles Dudley Warner essentialsgardenresponsibility Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. Charles Dudley Warner legislaturepublic-opinionstrong I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. Charles Dudley Warner selfishopportunitypeople The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities. Charles Dudley Warner wisefriendshipmen 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 experiencepracticeboys There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. Charles Dudley Warner marriagehusbandtaken One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him. Charles Dudley Warner regretfriendshipyears One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same. Charles Dudley Warner singingmusicvoice There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one. Charles Dudley Warner speechinspirationallife There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade. Charles Dudley Warner gratefulgardenvegetables Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it. Charles Dudley Warner agricultureblesseddoe 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 morningboysbelieve There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you. Charles Dudley Warner valueworthyouworld Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. Charles Dudley Warner nobodyaboutanythingweatherfunny 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 nationgreatworldknowledge
