Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God’s best gifts.
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, and try to make things a little better and honester there.
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 man may do some honest work in his own corner.
Author refers to, “short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.
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.
A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered
The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,
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 whatever is noble and living in another man.
Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn’t be overlooked.
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.
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.
The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.
Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.
Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.
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 on the society you live in than you ever can have again.
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.
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.
Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations
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 scrapes; and that’s what I never could do.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things but above all the power of getting out of one’s self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.