There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
Mary Augusta WardIn this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
Mary Augusta Ward... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.
Mary Augusta WardThe 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.
Mary Augusta Ward