150 Quotes by John Lancaster Spalding

If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

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.

They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.

It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.

If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?

The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.

The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.

If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.