“ Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts. Thomas Hughes
“ 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 going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is nobl… Thomas Hughes
“ 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 no… Thomas Hughes
“ The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them, Thomas Hughes
“ 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, whom he had looked up… Thomas Hughes
“ 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 scra… Thomas Hughes
“ 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 e… Thomas Hughes
“ 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; o… Thomas Hughes
“ Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations Thomas Hughes
“ 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. Thomas Hughes
“ 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. Thomas Hughes
“ 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… Thomas Hughes
“ Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens. Thomas Hughes
“ The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them. Thomas Hughes
“ 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. Thomas Hughes
“ 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. Thomas Hughes
“ Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked. Thomas Hughes
“ 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 strength, striving against whatever wa… Thomas Hughes
“ 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 downwar… Thomas Hughes
