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 to what we spen… - John Ruskin

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree — not of a cloud.

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.