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.