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.
John SterlingAn unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.
John SterlingThere 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.
John SterlingKnowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.
John Sterling