The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John RuskinYou will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
John RuskinThe proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.
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