150 Quotes by John Lancaster Spalding

The aim of education is to strengthen and multiply the powers and activities of the mind rather than to increase its possessions.

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

As we can not love what is hateful, let us accustom ourselves neither to think nor to speak of disagreeable things and persons.

The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

No sooner does a divine gift reveal itself in youth or maid than its market value becomes the decisive consideration, and the poor young creatures are offered for sale, as we might sell angels who had strayed among us.