What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
John RuskinAnything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
John RuskinGreatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.
John RuskinWill you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.
John Ruskin