It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated - John Ruskin

There is nothing so small but that we may honour God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower;—when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual, and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body. But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltily and darkly.