To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them.
John RuskinAll are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.
John RuskinHe is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John RuskinThe beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
John Ruskin