I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

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

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

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

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.

Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.