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."

"Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth."

"Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back."

"He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin."

"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."

"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."

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

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

"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

"The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work."

"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."

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."

"The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man."

"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."

"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

"There is no wealth but life."

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

"To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."