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.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

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

Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

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