You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil. – 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
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. – John Ruskin
Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life. – John Ruskin