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

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

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

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 the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

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

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