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 Nature
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. John Ruskin Nature
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. John Ruskin Education
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. John Ruskin Success
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 Architecture
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. John Ruskin Age
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. John Ruskin Art
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. John Ruskin Architecture
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. John Ruskin Great
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. John Ruskin Inspirational
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. John Ruskin Work