Quotes from Ernest Poole

Queer, how a man can neglect his children, as I have done ... when the thing he wants most in life is to see each one ...happy.

I suppose you know what you're about." "Oh no, I don't," she answered. "I never know what I'm about. If you always do, you miss so much—you get into a solemn habit of trying nothing till you're sure.

Would Edith ever be like that, a mere custodian of the past? If she did, he thought, she would be false to the very traditions she tried to preserve. For her forefathers had never been mere guardians of things gone by. Always they had been pioneers. That house had not been old to them, but a thrilling new adventure.

When the women get the vote, we'll spend more money on the children.