There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

In 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.

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

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

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

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