Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

British novelist (1851-1920)

Mary Augusta Ward (née Arnold) (June 11, 1851 – March 26, 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs. Humphry Ward.

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Pen Names: Mrs. Humphry Ward

Birth Name: Mary Augusta Arnold

Alternative Names: M. A. W. • Mrs. Humphrey Ward

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

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

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

All things change,—creeds and philosophies and outward systems,—but God remains!

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

Conviction is the Conscience of the Mind.