The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas. — 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 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
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
