Quotes by John Lancaster Spalding

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.
– John Lancaster Spalding
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
– John Lancaster Spalding
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
– John Lancaster Spalding
Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
– John Lancaster Spalding
The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
– John Lancaster Spalding