God shows us in Himself, strange as it may seem, not only authoritative perfection, but even the perfection of obedience--an obedience to His own laws; and in the cumbrous movement of those unwieldiest of his creatures we are reminded, even in His divine essence, of that attribute of uprightness in the human creature "that sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not.
John RuskinIt does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
John RuskinCuriosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.
John RuskinIn the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.
John RuskinFailure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.
John Ruskin