He who demands little gets it.
Ellen Glasgow.
“A little later, when breakfast was over and I had not yet gone up-stairs to my room, I had my first interview with Doctor Brandon, the famous alienist who was in charge of the case. I had never see...”
“Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion”
“He knows so little and knows it so fluently.”
“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.”
“Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.”
“Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.”
“But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. ”
“The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.”
“Many people achieved important goals in their lives, but hardly any of them seemed any happier for it. Even worse, some complained that other areas of their lives had suffered along the way. The re...”