John Ruskin

"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."

- John Ruskin

"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together."

- John Ruskin

"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."

- John Ruskin

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

- John Ruskin

"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it."

- John Ruskin

"Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty."

- John Ruskin

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."

- John Ruskin

"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them."

- John Ruskin

"Education...is a painful, continual, and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning...by praise, but above all, by example."

- John Ruskin

"The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

- John Ruskin

"Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty."

- John Ruskin

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

- John Ruskin

"There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this."

- John Ruskin

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

- John Ruskin

"When we build, let us think that we build forever."

- John Ruskin

"Quality is never an accident, it is always the result of an effort of intelligence."

- John Ruskin

"The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced."

- John Ruskin

"“It is unwise to pay too much but it is worse to pay too little. When you pay too much you lose a little money. When you pay too little you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common sense law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot. It can’t be done.”"

- John Ruskin

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

- John Ruskin

"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close."

- John Ruskin

"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort."

- John Ruskin

"Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery."

- John Ruskin