Active Quote by John Ruskin

As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her…

— Friedrich Schiller

And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness,…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Night with her veil of gloom covers and conceals the face of the earth, shrouding from our eyes all that is lovely and fair…

— Scott G. Bruce

All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles…

— Charles Inglis

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment of courage,…

— Joseph Conrad

However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way Shines bright over the world. But day and night the person who is awake…

— Gautama Buddha

The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound,…

— Thomas Raymond Kelly

A glad zest and hopefulness might be inspired even in the most jaded and ennui-cursed, were there in our homes such simple, truthful natures…

— T.C. Boyle

Give humanity hope and it will dare and suffer joyfully, not counting the cost - hope with laughter on her banner and on her…

— John Elof Boodin

Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure,…

— Bram Stoker

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets…

— Horace

“Visit her, gentle Sleep! with wings of healing, And may this storm be but a mountain-birth, May all the stars hang bright above her…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge