There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are… — 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
Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as… — 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