Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.
John RuskinThe art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
John RuskinThe highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
John RuskinFailure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.
John RuskinNow the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.
John Ruskin