George Peabody

“Education: a debt due from present to future generations.”

“The great end and aim of all my long and arduous labors has been to be enabled to contribute to the happiness and well-being of my fellow-men.”

“I have given to the Queen, in the persons of her poor, a larger sum than any of her nobles have given to her in a lifetime.”

“Looking forward, I have sought to make provision for the need of the London poor, as respects their dwellings, permanently and for ever.”

“My earnest desire is, that this Institute... shall be so administered as to be productive of the most beneficial results to the whole community.”

“I hope and trust that, under the smiles of the God of our Fathers, it will prove a lasting blessing to the glorious country of my birth and that to which I have been adopted.”

“It is my hope that the results of this gift will be a great and lasting good to the cause of science.”