Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
John RuskinWherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given themโin sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
John RuskinIt seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John RuskinDrunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age.
John Ruskin