John Ruskin

Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world.

John Ruskin

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

John Ruskin

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

John Ruskin

Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.

John Ruskin

For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

John Ruskin

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

John Ruskin

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that he intends every man to be happy in his work.

John Ruskin

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

John Ruskin

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts – the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth they, and they only.

John Ruskin