150 Quotes by John Lancaster Spalding

To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.

If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.

We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.

The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image.

The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest.

The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.

One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.