John Ruskin
61 quotations
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
The last act crowns the play.
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
A book worth reading is worth buying.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.