60 Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

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

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.

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

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.

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems – but God remains.

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

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!

The only thing which can keep journalism alive – journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment – is – again the Stevensonian secret! – charm.

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? – the one advantage of time!