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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| cc056e5 | They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 8265de7 | The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| b2f2969 | The will--the one thing it is most important to educate--we neglect. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 8c5d0ee | When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 92a4644 | What purifies the heart refines language. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 7ebae19 | If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| c3e5091 | Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 2740106 | They who admire and reverence noble and heroic men are akin to them. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 0b3fe3c | The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 23aa153 | Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 188047f | Beauty lies not in the things we see, but in the soul. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 2bf0a9e | As display is vulgar, so fondness for jewelry is evidence of an uncultivated mind. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| f463ef8 | We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 541af94 | If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us? | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| ec990de | It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 8706ed4 | It is not worth while to consider whether a truth be useful--it is enough that it is a truth. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| aab97ce | When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 3e2c43c | If thou canst not hold the golden mean, say and do too little rather than too much. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 9bbd5e2 | The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 276d4f2 | The seeking for truth is better than its loveless possession. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 686bd98 | The smaller the company, the larger the conversation. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 7c29fa9 | Not to be able to utter one's thought without giving offence, is to lack culture. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 65be314 | Base thy life on principle, not on rules. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 537611c | Reform the world within thyself, which is thy proper world. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 98dedb0 | The happiness of the ignorant is but an animal's paradise. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 22f2de0 | We truly know only what we have taught ourselves. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 6b5ef9a | Insight makes argument ridiculous. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 011c0f7 | A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 8ce2e04 | What we acquire with joy, we possess with indifference. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 1e892f9 | The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| ad3d6fd | When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 516053d | When the crowd acclaims its favorites it applauds itself. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 44ae977 | Folly will run its course and it is the part of wisdom not to take it too seriously. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 38f96b2 | Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| bd86808 | In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| ceff950 | One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 047c279 | They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 2fa9c5d | It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 8994caa | The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| ee27bed | If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own? | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 215d5b8 | If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| 3948170 | They who think they know all, learn nothing. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| bc670c9 | Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind. | John Lancaster Spalding | ||
| e99064d | Wouldst thou bestow some precious gift upon thy fellows, make thyself a noble man. | John Lancaster Spalding |