Quotes by John Lancaster Spalding

John Lancaster Spalding

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

Company

Doe

Gentleman

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

Hobbies

Sun

Views

A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.

Mean

Men

Views

A principal aim of education is to give students a taste for literature, for the books of life and power, and to accomplish this, it is necessary that their minds be held aloof from the babblement and discussions of the hour, that they may accustom themselves to take interest in the words and deeds of the greatest men, and so make themselves able and worthy to shape a larger and nobler future; but if their hours of leisure are spent over journals and reviews, they will, in later years, become the helpless victims of the newspaper habit.

Book

Men

Years

A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.

Exercise

Eye

Wise

Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.

Blood

May

Mind

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

Altruism

Barbarism

Love Is

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

Brave

Fire

Men

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.

Children

College

Youth

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Memories

Paradise

Sad

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Believe

Blessed

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Bravery

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Quotes by John Lancaster Spalding

John Lancaster Spalding

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

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

A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.

A Wise man knows that much of what he says and does is commonplace and trivial. His thoughts are not all solemn and sacred in his own eyes. He is able to laugh at himself and is not offended when others make him a subject whereon to exercise their wit.

Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

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.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

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