12 quotes found
“Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.”
“Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.”
“Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations”
“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.”
“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 and appreciating what...”
“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 down...”
“This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in handin England at any rate.”
“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...”
“The faces of your young people in general are not interestingI don't mean the children, but the young men and womenand they are awkward and clownish in their manners, without the quaintness of the ...”
“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 care of oneself, and keep out of s...”
“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 th...”
