John Lancaster Spalding: Making

John Lancaster Spalding was Catholic bishop. Explore interesting quotes on making.
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“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

“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

“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

“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

“It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 229

“As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 21

“It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 269

“A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.”

John Lancaster Spalding

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 270