19th-century Civil Servant Quotes

Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet

Walter Terence Stace

One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods is the deliberation with which Archimedes approaches the solution of any one of his main problems.

Thomas Little Heath

No scientific argument — by which I mean an argument drawn from the phenomena of nature — can ever have the slightest tendency either to prove or disprove the existence of God... science is irrelevant to religion.

Walter Terence Stace

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

It is proposed to invite the flower of our youth to the aid of public service.

Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet

Ask a ferryman or a toll-keeper how many visitors come through daily on an average, and with an appearance of great intellectual discomfort he assures you the number varies so much.

Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp