The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.
Ellen GlasgowMediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Ellen GlasgowLife is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.
Ellen GlasgowYouth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.
Ellen Glasgow