Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.
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 RuskinThe object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them
John RuskinThe history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.
John RuskinArchitecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
John RuskinI believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.
John Ruskin