Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
John RuskinCompulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.
John RuskinNo amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
John RuskinI tell you (dogmatically, if you like to call it so, knowing it well) a square inch of man's engraving is worth all the photographs that were ever dipped in acid... Believe me, photography can do against line engraving just what Madame Tussaud's wax-work can do against sculpture. That and no more. (1865)
John Ruskin