Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
John RuskinNo picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
John RuskinMusic when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John RuskinA man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.
John RuskinBeing thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this race of plants, deserving boundless affection and admiration from us, becomes, in proportion to their obtaining it, a nearly perfect test of our being in right temper of mind and way of life; so that no one can be far wrong in either who loves trees enough, and everyone is assuredly wrong in both who does not love them, if his life has brought them in his way.
John RuskinThe more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.
John Ruskin