John Sterling Quotes

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

The ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.