Let us celebrate the soil. ...

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.
 Charles Dudley Warner

Quotes from the same author

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.
 Charles Dudley Warner
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?
 Charles Dudley Warner
Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.
 Charles Dudley Warner
There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.
 Charles Dudley Warner
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.
 Charles Dudley Warner