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

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

- 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