John Lancaster Spalding: Trending quotes (page 9)

“As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 245

Wisdom , Children , Youth

“They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 241

Children

“When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life’s morning.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 185

Life , Hope , Success

“A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 234

Education , Perfection

“If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 246

Men , Disappointment

“Insight makes argument ridiculous.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 201

“Rules of grammar can not give us a mastery of language, rules of rhetoric can not make us eloquent, rules of conduct can not make us good.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 103

“It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 166

Loyalty

“God has not made a world which suits all; how shall a sane man expect to please all?”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 20

God , World

“Mercenary is whoever thinks less of his work than of the money he receives for doing it; and social conditions which impose tasks that make this inevitable are barbarous.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 168

Money , Thinking

“As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.”

John Lancaster Spalding

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

Love , Life , Truth

“The happiness of the ignorant is but an animal’s paradise.”

John Lancaster Spalding

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

Animals , Happiness

“As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 37

“We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 273

Truth

“The seeking for truth is better than its loveless possession.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 182

Truth

“What purifies the heart refines language.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 117

Heart

“When with all thy heart thou strivest to live with truth and love, couldst thou do anything better? … If this be thy life, thou shalt not deem it a misfortune to lack the things men most crave and toil for.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 276

Love , Life , Men , Truth

“If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 76

“Conversation injures more than it benefits. Men talk to escape from themselves, from sheer dread of silence. Reflection makes them uncomfortable, and they find distraction in a noise of words. They seek not the company of those who might enlighten and improve them, but that of whoever can divert and amuse them. Thus the intercourse which ought to be a chief means of education, is for the most part, the occasion of mental and moral enfeeblement.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 155

Men , Education , Silence , Parting

“The value of a mind is measured by the nature of the objects it habitually contemplates. They whose thoughts are of trifles are trifling: they who dwell with what is eternally true, good and fair, are like unto God.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 268

God , Nature