There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.
Ellen GlasgowBut there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
Ellen GlasgowThe 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.
Ellen Glasgow