7 quotes
There's always a voice saying the right thing to you somewhere, if you'll only listen for it.
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
Young men are pretty much like a drove of sheep; any one who takes a decided line on certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
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 noble and loving in another.
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
[W]hat will not a delicately nurtured British lady go through when her mind is bent either on pleasure or duty?
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
"The consciousness of the darkness in one and around one brings the longing for light. And then the light dawns; through mist and fog, perhaps, but enough to pick one's way by." He stopped a moment and then added, "and shines ever brighter unto the perfect day."
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)
For the credit of muscular Christianity, one must say that it was not her weight, but the tumult in his own inner man, which made her bearer totter. Nevertheless, if one is wholly unused to the exercise, the carrying a healthy young English girl weighing a good eight stone, is as much as most men can conveniently manage.
Tom Brown at Oxford (1861)