We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.

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

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

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

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.