Charles Dudley Warner

"Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it."

"A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it."

"To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do."

"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help."

"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous."

"Politics makes strange bedfellows."

"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes."

"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it."