Maxioms by Charles Dudley Warner
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he read more
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
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from read more
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration. - My Summer in a Garden, 1871.
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. read more
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.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - My Summer in read more
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. - My Summer in a Garden.
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
