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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

John Ruskin

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

John Ruskin

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

John Ruskin

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

John Ruskin

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

John Ruskin

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

John Ruskin

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

John Ruskin

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

John Ruskin

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

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

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

John Ruskin

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

John Ruskin

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

John Ruskin

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

John Ruskin

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

John Ruskin

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

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

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

John Ruskin

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

John Ruskin