Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. – John Ruskin
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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. – John Ruskin
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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. – John Ruskin
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Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)
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