The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. – John Ruskin
Do not think of your faults, still less of others 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. – John Ruskin
The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced. – John Ruskin
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. – John Ruskin
It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think. РRen̩ Descartes, Discourse on the Method, 1637 (translated)