60 Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

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

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

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 no man has a monopoly of conscience.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

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.

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

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.