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The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the world as into a new creation and finds there a perennial source of wonder and delight.

John Lancaster Spalding
Great deeds and utterances are now so diluted with printer's ink that we can no longer find a sage or saint. Our worthiest men are exhibited and bewritten until they are made as uninteresting as clowns.

John Lancaster Spalding
We do not find it hard to bear with ourselves, though we are full of faults. Why then may we not learn to be tolerant of others?

John Lancaster Spalding
If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?

John Lancaster Spalding
Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.

John Lancaster Spalding
Place before thyself the ideal of perfection, not that of happiness, for by doing what makes thee wiser and better, thou shalt find the peace and joy in which happiness consists.

John Lancaster Spalding
The weak, when they have authority, surround themselves with the weak. It is, indeed, a vice of rulers that men who have exceptional ability and worth are offensive to them, since they whose greatness is due to their position find it difficult to love those whom inner power makes great.

John Lancaster Spalding
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
Conversation injures more than it benefits. Men talk to escape from themselves, from sheer dread of silence. Reflection makes them uncomfortable, and they find distraction in a noise of words. They seek not the company of those who might enlighten and improve them, but that of whoever can divert and amuse them. Thus the intercourse which ought to be a chief means of education, is for the most part, the occasion of mental and moral enfeeblement.

John Lancaster Spalding
Love finds us young and keeps us so: immortal himself, he permits not age to enter the hearts where he reigns.

John Lancaster Spalding