I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds.
John RuskinI fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
John RuskinOf all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
John RuskinImperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent.
John Ruskin