The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. – John Ruskin
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. – John Ruskin
Of all Gods gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. – John Ruskin
There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. – John Ruskin
Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbours something sufficiently akin to be understood, something sufficiently different to provoke attention, and something great enough to command admiration. We must not expect, however, all the virtues. – Alfred North Whitehead