150 Quotes by John Lancaster Spalding

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

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

Whoever has freed himself from envy and bitterness may begin to try to see things as they are.

As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought.

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation.

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

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.