To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill… — 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
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
If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate… — 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
The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and… — 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
