You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.- John Ruskin
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
There is no wealth but life.
