John Ruskin

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

John Ruskin

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

John Ruskin

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

John Ruskin

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

John Ruskin

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

John Ruskin

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

John Ruskin

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

John Ruskin

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

John Ruskin

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

John Ruskin

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin