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One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
— John Lancaster Spalding
To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.
— John Lancaster Spalding
When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
— John Lancaster Spalding
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
— John Lancaster Spalding
When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.
— John Lancaster Spalding
It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Insight makes argument ridiculous.
— John Lancaster Spalding
What we love to do we find time to do.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.
— John Lancaster Spalding
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.
— John Lancaster Spalding
They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
— John Lancaster Spalding
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
— John Lancaster Spalding
It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.
— John Lancaster Spalding
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
— John Lancaster Spalding
If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
— John Lancaster Spalding
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
— John Lancaster Spalding
There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
— John Lancaster Spalding
As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.
— John Lancaster Spalding
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
— John Lancaster Spalding
It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
— John Lancaster Spalding
In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously.
— John Lancaster Spalding
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.
— John Lancaster Spalding
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be
— John Lancaster Spalding
If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.
— John Lancaster Spalding
They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
— John Lancaster Spalding
To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.
— John Lancaster Spalding
A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.
— John Lancaster Spalding
When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.
— John Lancaster Spalding
When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
— John Lancaster Spalding
As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
— John Lancaster Spalding
It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?
— John Lancaster Spalding
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.
— John Lancaster Spalding
A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
— John Lancaster Spalding
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
— John Lancaster Spalding
As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Care not who is richer or more learned than thou, if none be more generous and loving.
— John Lancaster Spalding
What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?
— John Lancaster Spalding
Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
— John Lancaster Spalding
If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?
— John Lancaster Spalding
Make thyself perfect; others, happy.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
— John Lancaster Spalding
There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Base thy life on principle, not on rules.
— John Lancaster Spalding
The highest courage is to appear to be what one is.
— John Lancaster Spalding
We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
— John Lancaster Spalding