150 Quotes by John Lancaster Spalding

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.

A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.

To learn the worth of a man’s religion, do business with him.

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities – we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life’s morning.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption.

To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one’s self the ill will of many.