English Philanthropist Quotes

Thom Yorke

Hannah More

Lord Leverhulme

Caroline Stephen

Katie Piper

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

There can be no reason why man should not make towns liveable and healthy... just as much subject to the beneficent influence of bright sunshine, fresh air, flowers, and plants, as the country.

Lord Leverhulme

If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.

"My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel — towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends." - source

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Nothing, I believe, can really teach us the nature and meaning of inspiration but personal experience of it. That we may all have such experience if we will but attend to the divine influences in our own hearts, is the cardinal doctrine of Quakerism.

Caroline Stephen

Even when you think things can never move forward and you feel so low, there's always a way out.