John Ruskin

“The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.”

“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.”

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

“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.”

“Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.”

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

“The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.”

“I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.”

“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”

“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”

“Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.”

“A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.”

“Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“There is no wealth but life.”

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

“Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions and take that of laborers Unions.”

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

“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.”

“An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.”

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

“You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.”