John Ruskin
61 quotations
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
People cannot live by lending money to one another.
They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
The best thing in life aren't things.
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
The best work never was and never will be done for money.
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
Civilization is the making of civil persons.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.