Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.
John RuskinWhat is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.
John RuskinBut if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us,--it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.
John Ruskin