John Lancaster Spalding Quote

The pessimist writes over the gates of life what the poet has inscribed on the portals of hell— Abandon hope, ye who enter here.


p. 189 - Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)


The pessimist writes over the gates of life what the poet has inscribed on the portals of hell— Abandon hope, ye who enter here.

The pessimist writes over the gates of life what the poet has inscribed on the portals of hell— Abandon hope, ye who enter here.

The pessimist writes over the gates of life what the poet has inscribed on the portals of hell— Abandon hope, ye who enter here.

The pessimist writes over the gates of life what the poet has inscribed on the portals of hell— Abandon hope, ye who enter here.