Quotation by Thomas Arnold

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), British educator, scholar. Letter, March 2, 1828. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, DD, vol. 1, ch. 2, ed. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1845).

Written on appointment as headmaster of Rugby School.
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