A 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 Glasgow
Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting. – Ellen Glasgow
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. – Ellen Glasgow
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. – Ellen Glasgow
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-tabl