It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
Ellen GlasgowA tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
Ellen GlasgowOne cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
Ellen Glasgow