“The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.” MomentsDiesBornSecretAliveJournalismCharm Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.” EnoughLiteratureEnjoyRealizingProphet Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.” MayFailingTradeMischief Author: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 which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.” KindFormNatureNaturalConsciousnessColorDelightScentSuspendedIntoxicationNatural ThingsHamper Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!” FeelsHelpingAgeGenerationsApproachAdvantageOld AgeGatesYounger GenerationConfidential Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?” PersonalitySlaveryChainsTemperament Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.” ShowsToo MuchSafeDistanceCustomersShoppingPersuasionTrout Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.” PeopleHelpingPraise Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.” IdeasCapableInfiniteConcentrationExpansionAdaptationGreat Idea Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows.” IfsThinkingWorldHumansEnergyStrongGrowsInterestHuman BeingsOpinionWeakRelationFolksDullSincere Author:Mary Augusta Ward