Quotes by Thomas Nelson Page

A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine, is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows.

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

She would have been a very remarkable woman, if she had not been an old maid.