There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
John RuskinIn the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.
John RuskinThe object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them
John Ruskin[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.
John Ruskin