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.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

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.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Self-employment killed the weekend.

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.

I'm all for the path of least resistance.

Great business turns on a little pin.

The economic insecurity of the past ten to 15 years, the 2008 Wall Street crash, NAFTA, and the loss of millions of good jobs - these directly grow out of Democratic Party neo-liberal policies.

We live at a very special time . . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!

We used to say that he who threw the biggest tantrum won the day.

If we think about it, all great discoveries and paradigm shifts are always stimulated by an external event.