Born this date in 1829 was Charles Dudley Warner, American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. 10 quotes:
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
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.
There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.
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 neighbour can do the same.
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.
Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.
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