Ellen Glasgow Nature Quotations

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

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.