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
spring love-is joy
Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.
mind opinion turns
If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.
dare highest
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
philosophical phantoms steps
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
mind belief opinion
Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
time
What we love to do we find time to do.
masters
We are not masters of the truth which is borne in upon us: it overpowers us.
athlete office battle
Thy money, thy office, thy reputation are nothing; put away these phantom clothings, and stand like an athlete stripped for the battle.
lost unlearn
They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.
break guides ends
Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.
love-is barbarism altruism
Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
giving imagination long
What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.
dwelling-place culture ease
Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.
spring mean roots
Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.