John Sterling

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.