John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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Be content that others have position, if thou hast ability: that others have riches, if thou hast virtue.
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Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.
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Obedience is not servility. On the contrary the servile are never rightly obedient.
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It is a large part of learning to know what one wants, and where it may be found in its most authentic form.
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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.
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What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
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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.
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They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
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The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the world as into a new creation and finds there a perennial source of wonder and delight.
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Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
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As the savages whom we have instructed are ready when left to themselves to return to their ancestral mode of life, so our young people quickly forget what they have learned at school, and sink back into the commonplace existence from which a right education would have saved them.
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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
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The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
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Moral education is the development of individuality, and individuality can not be developed by formulas and mechanical processes: it is the work of the master who brings to his task a genuine and loving interest in the individual.
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As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.
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If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.
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If thou wouldst be implacable, be so with thyself.
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The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
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A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous.
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How is it possible not to strive to know what the awakening minds of the young are eager to learn from us? It is little less than criminal that we should put them off with foolish speech or lies.
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To love the perfection with which we do our work, or the company of those with whom we work, is the secret of learning to love the work itself.
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The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
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Beauty least adorned is most adorned
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They who admire and reverence noble and heroic men are akin to them.