No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
John RuskinModern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
John RuskinNearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the worst in reckless defiance; the plurality, in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.
John Ruskin