Mary Ellen Chase Quotes
- There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
- It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.
- 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 out…
- 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.
- The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.
- Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein…
- Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.
- Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.