Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
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 SterlingToil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
John SterlingA man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.
John SterlingFaith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.
John SterlingColor, 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.
John Sterling