John Lancaster Spalding quotes

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. (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. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul. View quote
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. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability. View quote
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. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness. (John Lancaster Spalding)
If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth. View quote
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. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work? View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word. View quote
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. View quote
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)
It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
If thou need money, get it in an honest way-by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding