John Lancaster Spalding
John Lancaster Spalding
John Lancaster Spaldingwas an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 June 1840
CountryUnited States of America
brave soul gentleman
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.
passionate talent efficacy
Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?
prejudice accepting being-true
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.
prejudice infirmity
Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
thoughtful mind doubt
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
sincerity depends livelihood
Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.
helping-others should deals
If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be
educational self incentives
Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
wise eye exercise
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.
mistake angel devil
There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.
disappointment joy soul
We may avoid much disappointment and bitterness of soul by learning to understand how little necessary to our joy and peace are the things the multitude most desire and seek.
errors causes common
It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.
dull failing vain
If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.
approval and-love knows
When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.