Quote of the Day, from Bishop John Lancaster Spalding (1840-1916)

January 20

To become an ethical fact, to have moral worth, knowledge must pass into action. When scholars become doers, the new order will begin.

Minnie R. Cowan, ed., The Spalding Year-Book: Quotations from the Writings of Bishop John Lancaster Spalding for Each Day of the Year (Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1905), 13.