There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.
John RuskinThe enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.
John RuskinThe object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them
John RuskinOur duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
John Ruskin