Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted. — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing.… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities. — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them. — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make. — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
