The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.
John RuskinWhen I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy, but I that make it sweet.
John RuskinOf all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
John RuskinAll that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
John Ruskin