Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.
John RuskinLet every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
John RuskinChildhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.
John RuskinNo person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
John RuskinIt's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better.
John Ruskin