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Mary Ellen Chase
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“There was an abandonment in reading in those days which I would fain catch again ... Words were intoxicants. I tasted, smelled, touched them. They were unknown fruit, strange and delectable, fragrance floating across wide seas, moonlight on still water. They were as remote from my stupid, halting speech as I was from my immediate and material surroundings. I never said them aloud, but I dwelt with them 'in faery lands forlorn.'”
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“To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.”
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“The order and harmony of her house were necessary to the order and harmony of her mind and spirit.”
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“Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.”
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“Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.”
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“The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues are often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.”
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“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
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“... there is no substitute for books in the life of a child.”
Mary Ellen Chase, U.S. writer, critic, educator
(1887 - 1973)