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

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
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

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
John Ruskin

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
John Ruskin

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
John Ruskin

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

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.
John Ruskin