Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
Ellen GlasgowI am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.
Ellen GlasgowI hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.
Ellen GlasgowAfter a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
Ellen Glasgow