Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Ellen GlasgowBut, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
Ellen Glasgow. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
Ellen Glasgow