John Sterling may refer to:
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
Commerce has made all winds her mistress.
Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands.
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.
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.
Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light returns.
Compliments are only lies in court clothes.
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.
Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.
Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
Man is a substance clad in shadows.
I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.