John Ruskin
61 quotations
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
There is no wealth but life.
The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.