With love and prayers by F. Jarvis. Quotes

-People say you can call yourself fortunate if you are happy with two-thirds or more of your life. I love ninety-nine  percent of mine
-At the start of each term Dr. Jarvis addresses the boys as would a father, a pastor, or a mentor, and while he loves them, he is not their pal: he is the Head, and the boys seem to like it that way.
-Roxbury Latin has chosen to remain small, while at the same time its resources have been so wisely husbanded for so long that it is able to provide the very best education to all who meet its requirements, without regard to ability to pay.
-What we must look for here is first, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; and thirdly, intellectual ability. Dr. Thomas Arnold.
-It is not what the story says but what the story means.
-Times of maximum danger provide maximum opportunity.
-Happiness in life is not the absence of pressure and stress. Happiness in life is finding a way to deal with the inevitable pressure and stress of life.
-Don't you get tired of working with teenage boys year after year? I never do, because no boy is like any other. You have to win kids one by one. You have to find the key to each individual boy, and that is utterly engrossing and endlessly intriguing. We have only two weapons we can bring to the battle of winning kids over: love and prayer.
-Those of us who believe that life has meaning and purpose, who believe that honesty, simplicity, respect, and concern for others are eternal and life, enhancing values, cannot in good conscience remain silent.
-Education outside the moral context was dangerous.
-There has never been a more important time than now for headmasters and teachers to speak up about the meaning of life and about values to live by. That is what I have tried to do.
-Teenagers love biography, they are fascinated by the concrete reality of life experiences.
-Why am I doing this? Why have I chosen this life? Why am I working so hard?