The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English art critic, painter, writer, social thinker

The Stones of Venice, vol. II, ch. 6, sec. 62 (1853)