A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

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.

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

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 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.