John Ruskin

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.

You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will read more

You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris,
Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,
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When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris,
Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,
And to Versailles, although to go so far is
A thing not quite consistent with your ease,
And--but the mass of objects quite a bar is
To my describing what the traveller sees.
You who have ever been to Paris, know;
And you who have not been to Paris--go!

Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, read more

Whether the weather be fine, Whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, Whether the weather be hot, We'll weather the weather, Whatever the whether, Whether we like it or not