John Lancaster Spalding Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Lying, Men, Vices

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

• Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Ease, Our Love, Stealing

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Heart, Winning, Faults

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

• The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Ignorance, Innocence, Virtue

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

• Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Spring, Mean, Roots

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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