We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man. — 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
Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more… — 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
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are. — 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
Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind. — 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
