Professor Elam

Well here is a site I will have to add to Helpful Websites, brainy quotes.  It is handily categorized by authors and subject.  Click and give it a whirl, here are a few classics by John Ruskin.

Eudcation is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. 
I would add, to what is best for them.

Modern Travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place and very littel different from becoming a parcel.
Ruskin lived from the early 1800s to 1900 by the way. What would he think of air travel?

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.

When  a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.