Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.
John SterlingLanguage. 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.
John SterlingPoetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
John SterlingSpeech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.
John Sterling