Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.

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.

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.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

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.

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