"A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money." ― John Ruskin Topic(s): Great Tags: little, thought More From John Ruskin "All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness." "The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education." "No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder." More In Great "In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry."― Norman MacCaig "All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."― Orison Swett Marden "A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness."― Friedrich Nietzsche