Quotes by John Ruskin

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

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.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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.

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

There is no wealth but life.

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 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.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

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.