You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. – John Ruskin
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. – 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
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