... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

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

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

We all grow on somebody's grave.

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

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.