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 seen him before, but from the first moment that I looked at him, I took his measure, almost by intuition. He was, I suppose, honest enough -- I have always granted him that, bitterly as I have felt toward him. It wasn't his fault that he lacked red blood in his brain, or that he had formed the habit, from long association with abnormal phenomena, of regarding all life as a disease. He was the sort of physician -- every nurse will understand what I mean -- who deals instinctively with groups instead of with individuals. He was long and solemn and very round in the face; and I hadn't talked to him ten minutes before I knew he had been educated in Germany, and that he had learned over there to treat every emotion as a pathological manifestation. I used to wonder what he got out of life -- what anyone got out of life who had analyzed away everything except the bare structure.

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Ellen Glasgow

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

— Ellen Glasgow

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

Cruelty is the only sin.

— Ellen Glasgow

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

— Ellen Glasgow

He who demands little gets it.

— Ellen Glasgow

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

— Ellen Glasgow

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

— Ellen Glasgow

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

— Ellen Glasgow