Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
John RuskinFailure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.
John RuskinIt is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.
John Ruskin