Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. - John Sterling
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. - John Sterling
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. - John Sterling
There 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 Sterling
I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. - Peter Benchley
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself. - F. H. Bradley
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another. - Benjamin Jowett
For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels. - Paul Anka