Thomas Hughes Quotes

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself—you are not old enough to judg...

Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in ...

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to av...

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

We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that),...

The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at on...

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles al...

Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of th...

While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting an...

Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involve...

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

This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel...

You see, at Rugby I was rather a great man. There one had a share in the ruling of 300 boys, and a g...

That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a t...

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

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more ...

Schools and universities are (as in a body) the noble and vital parts, which being vigorous and soun...

Shopkeepers —the great landed and commercial interests—regularly sat and slept, and where the two pu...

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

The trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts t...

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves...

The faces of your young people in general are not interesting—I don't mean the children, but the you...

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

At that moment his soul is fuller of the tomb and him who lies there than of the altar and Him of wh...

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

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you,...