Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

- Mary Augusta Ward

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have…

- Mary Augusta Ward

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in wh…

- Mary Augusta Ward

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - …

- Mary Augusta Ward

praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

- Mary Augusta Ward

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

- Mary Augusta Ward

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of…

- Mary Augusta Ward

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

- Mary Augusta Ward

We all grow on somebody's grave.

- Mary Augusta Ward