If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If thou need money, get it in an honest way by keeping books, if thou wilt, but not by writing books. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own? — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting? — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
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 Image
