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
John Lancaster Spalding quotes about
important littles leisure
There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
loyalty certain difficult
It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
numbers influence free-will
The power of free will is developed and confirmed by increasing the number of worthy motives which influence conduct.
ridiculous argument insight
Insight makes argument ridiculous.
enjoy possession loses
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.
salt corruption contradiction
Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption
soul balls chains
Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
views law practice
The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.
mirrors world looks
The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.
office liberty wealth
Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.
eye heart men
We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.
desire able ability
The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
ridiculous opinion angry
If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
philosophy prejudice common
The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems.