Mary Augusta Ward

“What is it to be a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner.”

“Conscience is the most sacred of all property.”

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”

“Work is the great cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.”

“It is when we are in trouble that we are brought face to face with ourselves.”

“For my own part, I believe that the flame of Christian ethics is still the brightest flame that has ever been kindled upon the earth.”

“The sense of failure is a devastating thing.”

“A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.”

“To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.”

“To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.”

“Action is the normal end of thought.”

“The first condition of any popular art is that it should be simple.”

“But in this world of ours, things are always changing.”