The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.
John RuskinThe art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
John Ruskin... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
John RuskinBread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
John RuskinThe more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.
John Ruskin