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.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

Quotes

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

• ‘Propinquity does it’—as Mrs Thornburgh is always reminding us.
  • Robert Elsmere. Book i. Chap. ii

• 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)

External links

• Ward at the Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography
• Works by Mary Augusta Ward at Project Gutenberg
• Mary Augusta Ward at The Victorian Web
• Works by Ward at The Victorian Women Writers Project
• Mary Ward Centre