The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him the great human and divine book, and the men and women,...

Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,

This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in hand—in England at any rate.

Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing...

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting any superiority over him; and so, though more humble than at the most disastrous period of his...

Shopkeepers —the great landed and commercial interests—regularly sat and slept, and where the two publicans occupied pews, but seldom made even the pretence of worshipping.

I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, “in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God’s best gifts.

Schools and universities are (as in a body) the noble and vital parts, which being vigorous and sound send good blood and active spirits into the veins and arteries, which cause health and strength; or,...

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of whom it speaks. Such stages have to be gone through, I believe, by...

The faces of your young people in general are not interesting—I don’t mean the children, but the young men and women—and they are awkward and clownish in their manners, without the quaintness of the elder...

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil...

Don’t be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every...

You see, at Rugby I was rather a great man. There one had a share in the ruling of 300 boys, and a good deal of responsibility; but here one has only just to take...

Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn’t be overlooked.

Author refers to, “short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.

That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order.” “What a task! He ought to have three heads.

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

Don’t be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in,...

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

The trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts them alone. Solitude and his own thoughts—he must be on the best terms with all of these; and he...

We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that), to a man whom we felt to be, with all his heart and soul and...