When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.
John Ruskin... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
John RuskinDepend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.
John Ruskin