Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.
Charles Dudley WarnerRegrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Charles Dudley WarnerIt is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.
Charles Dudley WarnerA woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
Charles Dudley WarnerThe love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.
Charles Dudley Warner