Mary Augusta Ward Quotes
Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.
There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.
The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.
I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!
City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!
Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.
... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.
Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.
