Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays Quotes
Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.
The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,
Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.
A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.
The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.