It 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 RuskinUnless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
John RuskinThe strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
John RuskinNo changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.
John Ruskin