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?
From John Ruskin
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
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