Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford – we have no right – to look back. We must look forward

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

…this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'

For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: Freedom; Justice; Honour; Duty; Mercy; Hope.