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
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. – John Ruskin
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. – John Ruskin
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. – John Ruskin
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. – John Ruskin
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. – John Ruskin
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. – John Ruskin
The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced. – John Ruskin
Whether for life or death, do your own work well. – John Ruskin
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. – John Ruskin
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. – John Ruskin
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? – John Ruskin
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. – John Ruskin
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. – John Ruskin
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. – John Ruskin
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. – John Ruskin
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. – John Ruskin
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. – John Ruskin
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. – 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
