I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only.
John RuskinThe step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.
John RuskinIf only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.
John RuskinThe truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
John RuskinThe strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
John RuskinNot without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time, and not be discouraged at the rests. If we say sadly to ourselves, "There is no music in a rest," let us not forget " there is the making of music in it." The making of music is often a slow and painful process in this life. How patiently God works to teach us! How long He waits for us to learn the lesson!
John Ruskin