242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

it is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do ...

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.