John Ruskin

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.

To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do