Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. – John Ruskin
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? – John Ruskin
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. – John Ruskin
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. – John Ruskin
Each one of us is alone in the world… We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, 1919