Mary Augusta Ward

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

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

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.