God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

Three turns should do it.

Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

It takes an extraordinary amount of attention to manifest any ambition. But life intervenes - distractions and obligations pull us away from the ambition we originally had.

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.

We usually understand freedom as meaning that there are many choices - but does having more choices, or believing we do, actually make us more free?

Women that bear children must exist in Zululand only.

College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation