Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.
Mary Augusta WardWe enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
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