Charles Dudley Quotes
The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever.
You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.
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.
There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.
Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.
The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.
There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.
There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.
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 neighbor can do the same.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people evoked as it is by many qualities.
