John Ruskin

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

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

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

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 architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.