Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.
John RuskinA forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.
John RuskinBut I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.
John RuskinWherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given themโin sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
John RuskinAll the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.
John Ruskin