770 Quotes by John Ruskin

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, See! this our fathers did for us.

Doing is the great thing. for if, resolutely, people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it.

Reverence is the chief joy and power of life - reverence for that which is pure and bright in youth; for what is true and tried in age; for all that is gracious among the living, great among the dead, - and marvelous in the powers that cannot die.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts

What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it

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.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.Â