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

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.

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

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

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

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

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.