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
children passion men
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.
men giving littles
If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?
men degrees ancient
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
hero men saint
Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.
men ideas common
The common man is impelled and controlled by interests; the superior, by ideas.
children men may
We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.
eye heart men
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.
men average world
In the world of thought a man's rank is determined, not by his average work, but by his highest achievement.
men religion
To learn the worth of a man's religion, do business with him.
book men years
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.
lying men mediocrity
To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.
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.
men self guests
When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one another only the best they know and love.
fashion mean men
To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.