Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John RuskinThe constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
John RuskinNothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.
John RuskinObedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.
John Ruskin