No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgowidealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
Ellen GlasgowShe must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
Ellen Glasgow