The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
Ellen GlasgowI waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
Ellen GlasgowIt is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
Ellen GlasgowNothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.
Ellen Glasgow