Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity. Ellen Glasgow More Quotes by Ellen Glasgow More Quotes From Ellen Glasgow The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble. Ellen Glasgow humans trouble natural To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting. Ellen Glasgow redemption economy ethics O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books! Ellen Glasgow let-me writing book [Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads. Ellen Glasgow reform eye might Too much principle is often more harmful than too little. Ellen Glasgow too-much principles littles you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well. Ellen Glasgow pleasure committed sin There is a terrible loneliness in the spring. Ellen Glasgow terrible loneliness spring In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity! Ellen Glasgow favorite-hobby hobbies vacuums America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. Ellen Glasgow track blessing america But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age. Ellen Glasgow youth age Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth. Ellen Glasgow half giving heaven Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered. Ellen Glasgow long-ago mean lying I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write. Ellen Glasgow painful ends writing What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being. Ellen Glasgow heart time joy Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design. Ellen Glasgow design peculiar may Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage. Ellen Glasgow youth courage culture What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind. Ellen Glasgow mediocrity depressing way I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. Ellen Glasgow tongue dry fire A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short. Ellen Glasgow novel too-short long The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one. Ellen Glasgow fighting opportunity believe
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