More by John Ruskin
I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
Modern Painters (1843)
You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.
Modern Painters (1843)
Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.
Without perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)
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