John Ruskin

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.