Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.
John RuskinThat man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.
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 RuskinTo be taught to readโwhat is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speakโbut what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to thinkโnay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
John Ruskin