John SterlingThinkers

Enthusiasm is different from excitement — it is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastical, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

The Lawyer's ideal client is the very wealthy man in very great trouble.

Madness is emotion turning back on itself such that it leads on to thought or action.

Man is a substance clad In shadows.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.