My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

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

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

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

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