Mary Augusta Ward

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.

Quotes

 * One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
 * Robert Elsmere, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * This Laodicean cant of tolerance.
 * Robert Elsmere. Book ii. Chap. xii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems — but God remains.
 * Robert Elsmere. Book iv. Chap. xxvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
 * Robert Elsmere. Book vi. Chap. xxxviii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).