Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
John RuskinThe first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John RuskinWhat right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
John RuskinColor is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.
John Ruskin