Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Nelson Page

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.

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

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

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

Gordon Keith was the son a gentleman.

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.