John Ruskin
  • You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

  • To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

  • The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

  • No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

  • Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.