Reading an old book (1849) by John Ruskin - The Seven Lamps of Architecture. The book has been re-covered but the pages are original. Here are some quotes:

“…cases in which men feel too keenly to be silent and perhaps too strongly to be wrong.”

“…that beyond a certain point, and that a very low one, man cannot advance in the invention of beauty without directly imitating natural form.”

“Their influence over us is their severity and simplicity.”

How do arrive at meaning when the context is 176 years old? Somewhat impossible yet given our current times they do have a relevance.