It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.'

Though he introduced history mathematics and modern languages he based his teaching on the classical languages. He was educated at Lord Weymouth's Grammar School Warminster Winchester and Corpus Christi College Oxford.  173 
^ Thomas Hughes (1857) "7" Tom Brown's Schooldays 
^ Timothy Hands Thomas Hardy: Distracted Preacher? London: Macmillan Press 1989 p.

Dr Thomas Arnold (13 June 1795 – 12 June 1842) was a British educator and historian. He was the headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841 where he introduced a number of reforms.