The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas. — 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
To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man. — 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
Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets. — 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
A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood.… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue,… — 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
