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 SterlingThe worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
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 SterlingModern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.
John Sterling