John Lancaster Spalding

"There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels."

"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."

"To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one’s self the ill will of many."

"We do not see rightly until we learn to eliminate what we expect or wish to see from what we really see."

"If the young are watched too closely, if they are kept habitually under surveillance, the spring of action is weakened, the power of initiative is destroyed, and they become mediocre, commonplace, mec…"

"The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth."

"Each one fashions and bears his world with him, and that unless he himself become wise, strong and loving, no change in his circumstances can make him rich or free or happy."

"Believe in no triumph which is won by the deadening of human faculty or the dwarfing of human life. Strive for truth and love, not for victory."