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.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

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

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

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