John Ruskin

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. -John Ruskin.

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them

I have a dog of Blenheim birth,
With fine long ears and full of mirth;
And sometimes, read more

I have a dog of Blenheim birth,
With fine long ears and full of mirth;
And sometimes, running o'er the plain,
He tumbles on his nose:
But quickly jumping up again,
Like lightning on he goes!

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them