John Ruskin

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

It is written on the arched sky it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.