The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John RuskinNo picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
John RuskinTo speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty
John RuskinThe truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.
John Ruskin