There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
From John Ruskin
Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
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