I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
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. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
