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 Image
The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company. — 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
