John Lancaster Spalding: Trending quotes (page 8)

“They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 108

“Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 199

World

“They who no longer believe in principles still proclaim them, to conceal, both from themselves and others, the selfishness of the motives by which they are dominated.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 46

Motivation , Selfishness

“If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 254

“Be content that others have position, if thou hast ability: that others have riches, if thou hast virtue.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 255

“In our thrifty populations of merchants, manufacturers, politicians, and professional men, there is little sense for beauty, little pure thought, little genuine culture; but they are prosperous and self-satisfied.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 24

Men , Beauty , Sense

“Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 193

Effort

“What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), pp. 180-181

Pleasure , Imagination

“It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day,—this is the work of genius.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 33

Thinking

“To how much lying, extravagance, hypocrisy and servilism does not the fear of ridicule lead? Human respect makes us cowards and slaves. It may deter from evil, but much oftener it drives to baseness. “We are too much afraid,” said Cato, “of death, exile and poverty.””

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 171

Death , Fear , Lying , Evil

“In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 233

Love , Education , Religion

“The test of the worth of a school is not the amount of knowledge it imparts, but the self-activity it calls forth.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 227

School , Knowledge

“The narrow-minded and petty sticklers for the formalities which hedge rank and office are the true vulgarians, however observant they be of etiquette.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 34

“Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 197

World

“The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 120

Soul

“If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 215

“Believe in no triumph which is won by the deadening of human faculty or the dwarfing of human life. Strive for truth and love, not for victory.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), pp. 234-235

Love , Life , Truth , Victory

“Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 17

Money , Clothes

“Beauty least adorned is most adorned”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 35

Beauty

“The will—the one thing it is most important to educate—we neglect.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 113

Education