“Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwell Closed in Fancy’s rainbow shell” — John Sterling Fantasy Copy Share Image
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist. — John Sterling Cutting Copy Share Image
Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light!… — John Sterling Awake Copy Share Image
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom. — John Sterling Caricatures Copy Share Image
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole. — John Sterling Ideals Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. — John Sterling Affection Copy Share Image
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. — John Sterling Arranging Copy Share Image
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. — John Sterling Denial Copy Share Image
The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble. — John Sterling Clients Copy Share Image
Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living. — John Sterling Busy Copy Share Image
Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but… — John Sterling Beautiful Copy Share Image
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. — John Sterling Consciousness Copy Share Image
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market. — John Sterling Investing Copy Share Image
Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. — John Sterling Answers Copy Share Image
A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such… — John Sterling Believe Copy Share Image
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid. — John Sterling Clothes Copy Share Image
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. — John Sterling Action Copy Share Image
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands. — John Sterling Arbitrary Copy Share Image
Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the… — John Sterling Answers Copy Share Image
