43 Quotes by John Sterling

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

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.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

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.

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