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
exercise mind may
Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
helping-others should deals
If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be
solitude bears unbearable
Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
worry source
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
mean men 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.
firsts persons definite
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
sheep would-be gentle
If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.
might helping burden
Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
blood mind may
Agitators and declaimers may heat the blood, but they do not illumine the mind.
soul balls chains
Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.
office liberty wealth
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.
views law practice
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.
light views civilization
To view an object in the proper light we must stand away from it. The study of the classical literatures gives the aloofness which cultivates insight. In learning to live with peoples and civilizations that have long ceased to be alive, we gain a vantage point, acquire an enlargement and elevation of thought, which enable us to study with a more impartial and liberal mind the condition of the society around us.
salt corruption contradiction
Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption