John Lancaster Spalding
John Lancaster Spalding
John Lancaster Spaldingwas an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 June 1840
CountryUnited States of America
flower fate trouble
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
thinking and-love would-be
Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.
thinking imagine
The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.
mom mother feels
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.
faith believe knows
Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
time
What we love to do we find time to do.
believe atmosphere succeed
Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.
desire able ability
The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.
calamity disturbed
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
mind belief opinion
Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.
philosophical phantoms steps
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
dare highest
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
enjoy possession loses
What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.