"Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property."
Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and editor associated with The Hartford Courant. He collaborated with Mark Twain on The Gilded Age. Warner was a prominent literary and journalistic voice in late 19th-century America.