Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

- Ellen Glasgow

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

- Ellen Glasgow

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn…

- Ellen Glasgow

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

- Ellen Glasgow

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

- Ellen Glasgow

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

- Ellen Glasgow

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

- Ellen Glasgow

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

- Ellen Glasgow

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

- Ellen Glasgow