All violent feelings….produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterise as the ‘Pathetic Fallacy’.
(John Ruskin, 1819 – 1900)

John Lentell
24th December, 1970

“Not only is there one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way seeing them, and it is, seeing the whole of them.”

(John Ruskin, 1819 – 1900)

John Lentell

27th March, 1970

“Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.”

(John Ruskin, 1819 – 1900)

John Lentell

22nd March, 1970

“No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.”

(John Ruskin, 1819 – 1900)

John Lentell

“Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.”

(John Ruskin, 1819 – 1900)

John Lentell

19th March, 1969

“Your honesty is not to be based on either religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night.”

(From Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne by John Ruskin, 1819 – 1900)

John Lentell

11th March, 1969