"My highest ambition, and what I hope to do as far as I can, is to make my history the very reverse of Gibbon in this …"

"With regard to reforms at Rugby, give me credit, I must beg of you, for a most sincere desire to make it a place of C…"

"If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, b…"

"I do not often venture to talk to you about public affairs, but surely you will agree with me in deprecating this war…"

"Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, — st…"

"As of rioting, the old Roman way of dealing with that is always the right one; flog the rank and file, and fling the …"

"The distinction between Christianity and all other systems of religion consists largely in this, that in these other,…"

"Over the evolution of the public school Dr Thomas Arnold, Headmaster of Rugby from 1827 until his death in 1841, exer…"

"Arnold's own interpretation of the human past was no less immaculately ideal – a counterpart of the Middle Ages as se…"

"I [found], on going to the university, that...the tone of young men...was universally irreligious. A religious underg…"