John Lancaster Spalding Love Quotations

Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled with what is true and fair, which we admire and love because it is true and fair.

Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.

Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.

To cultivate the memory we should confide to it only what we understand and love: the rest is a useless burden; for simply to know by rote is not to know at all.