Education Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.

— John Lancaster Spalding

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

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

Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.

— John Lancaster Spalding

The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.

— John Lancaster Spalding

They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.

— John Lancaster Spalding

What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

— John Lancaster Spalding

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

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

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

— John Lancaster Spalding

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