Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.
John Lancaster Spalding
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Lancaster Spalding
Age: 76 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1916
Died: August 25
Author
Biographer
Catholic Priest
Lebanon
Kentucky
Firsts
Vulgar
First
Gentleman
Souls
Noble
Brave
Venal
Therefore
Rebuke
True
Requisite
Soul
Scandal
More quotes by John Lancaster Spalding
Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
John Lancaster Spalding
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is
John Lancaster Spalding
There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.
John Lancaster Spalding
When we know and love the best we are content to lack the approval of the many.
John Lancaster Spalding
Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.
John Lancaster Spalding
We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.
John Lancaster Spalding
The doctrine of the utter vanity of life is a doctrine of despair, and life is hope.
John Lancaster Spalding
One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.
John Lancaster Spalding
The important thing is how we know, not what or how much.
John Lancaster Spalding
Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
John Lancaster Spalding
The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.
John Lancaster Spalding
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
John Lancaster Spalding
Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
John Lancaster Spalding
They who see through the eyes of others are controlled by the will of others.
John Lancaster Spalding
As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.
John Lancaster Spalding
In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.
John Lancaster Spalding
The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
John Lancaster Spalding
Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.
John Lancaster Spalding
A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.
John Lancaster Spalding
The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
John Lancaster Spalding
