Ellen Glasgow World Quotations

One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world ...

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.