Quote#Hope
With regard to reforms at Rugby, give me credit, I must beg of you,…
Quote byThomas Arnold · 1795–1842
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Rev. John Tucker accepting his appointment as headmaster of Rugby (2 March 1828), quoted in Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, Volume I (1845), p. 61.
English (original)
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 Christian education. At the same time, my object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.
— Thomas Arnold
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