We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
Mary Augusta WardThere is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.
Mary Augusta WardA 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.
Mary Augusta WardA life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
Mary Augusta Ward