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" was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous journalists! More Charles Dudley Warner on Wikipedia.Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast iron back, with a hinge in it.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
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.
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.
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.
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