Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.John Ruskin
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.John Ruskin
When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.John Ruskin
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.John Ruskin
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.John Ruskin
