John Ruskin

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air unwholesome food improperly severe labor or erring habits of life.

Of all the things that oppress me this sense of the evil working of nature herself my disgust at her barbarity clumsiness darkness bitter mockery of herself is the most desolating.

Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back.

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied in the sum of his works the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.

There is no wealth but life.

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things but enjoy the right things not merely industrious but to love industry not merely learned but to love knowledge not merely pure but to love purity not merely just but to hunger and thirst after justice.