60 Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

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!

To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age ...

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

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 it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

we all grow on somebody's grave ...