Charles Dudley Warner

“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”

“Politics makes strange bedfellows.”

“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.”

“Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.”

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

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

“Simplicity is the last thing learned.”

“To be a man is to be a nonconformist.”