When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!
John RuskinThe strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
John RuskinThere is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
John Ruskin