He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
From John Ruskin
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
A book worth reading is worth buying.
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
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