60 Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

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.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

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

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

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.