At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.
John RuskinUnless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.
John RuskinThe first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
John RuskinChildren see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.
John RuskinThere are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but let us not suppose that his restlessness is peace, or his ambition meekness. It is because of the special connection of meekness with contentment that it is promised that the meek shall 'inherit the earth.' Neither covetous men, nor the grave, can inherit anything; they can but consume. Only contentment can possess.
John Ruskin