“The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.”

“Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.”

“Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.”

“In his Preface to the 1892 edition of Tess of the d’Urbervilles Hardy warns the reader that ‘a novel is an impression, not an argument’. However, the text offers several explanations of Tess’s tragedy; social, psychological, hereditary, and fatalistic, all of which proceed from the assumption that Hardy’s text is in some sense determined, and that the character of Tess is somehow knowable. Indeed, the tragedy of Tess is in this sense overdetermined. But it should be remembered that the character of Tess is constructed in the text from many points of observation, including that of the ambivalent narrator; constructed that is from impressions.”

“Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.”

“There is a strange sensation often experienced in the presenceof an audience. It may proceed from the gaze of the many eyes thatturn upon the speaker, especially if he permits himself to steadilyreturn that gaze. Most speakers have been conscious of this in anameless thrill, a real something, pervading the atmosphere,tangible, evanescent, indescribable. All writers have bornetestimony to the power of a speaker's eye in impressing anaudience. This influence which we are now considering is thereverse of that picture—the power their eyes mayexert upon him, especially before he begins to speak: after theinward fires of oratory are fanned into flame the eyes of theaudience lose all terror.”

“All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.”