Quotes by John Sterling

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

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

“Man is a substance clad in shadows.”

“[The] ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.”

“Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.”

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

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

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

“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”

Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwellClosed in Fancy’s rainbow shell

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.