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.
Mary Augusta WardThere is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
Mary Augusta WardAs far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
Mary Augusta Ward