The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard. – Ellen Glasgow
Doesnt all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? – Ellen Glasgow
Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting. – Ellen Glasgow
Women like to sit down with trouble – as if it were knitting. – Ellen Glasgow
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton (1642–1727), spoken the evening before his death