Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind. John Lancaster Spalding More Quotes by John Lancaster Spalding More Quotes From John Lancaster Spalding We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men. John Lancaster Spalding eye heart men 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. John Lancaster Spalding maids angel might We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man. John Lancaster Spalding may men children The world is a mirror into which we look, and see our own image. John Lancaster Spalding mirrors looks world If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched. John Lancaster Spalding light soul matter Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom. John Lancaster Spalding wealth liberty office The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice. John Lancaster Spalding practice views law Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative. John Lancaster Spalding body mind exercise 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. John Lancaster Spalding our-love stealing ease 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. John Lancaster Spalding brave made beautiful Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair. John Lancaster Spalding spring joy love-is The teacher does best, not when he explains, but when he impels his pupils to seek themselves the explanation. John Lancaster Spalding pupils doe teacher If a state should pass laws forbidding its citizens to become wise and holy, it would be made a byword for all time. But this, in effect, is what our commercial, social, and political systems do. They compel the sacrifice of mental and moral power to money and dissipation. John Lancaster Spalding sacrifice wise law Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates. John Lancaster Spalding like-love opinion hate 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. John Lancaster Spalding eye wise exercise 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. John Lancaster Spalding problem mind world They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others. John Lancaster Spalding through-the-eyes controlled eye The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls. John Lancaster Spalding gentleman soul brave There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels. John Lancaster Spalding faults winning heart Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul. John Lancaster Spalding noble body soul
