John Ruskin

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin deep saying.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.

Na stu ludzi umiejących czytać, jeden zaledwie umie myśleć.

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion - all in one.