English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

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

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

We all grow on somebody's grave.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

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