If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
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… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
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 Copy Share
There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share
