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.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

Our prejudices are like physical infirmities - we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep all would be as feeble and helpless.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

Insight makes argument ridiculous.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.

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.