Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John RuskinIf the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
John RuskinThere is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.
John RuskinThere is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
John RuskinThe actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.
John RuskinQuality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.
John Ruskin