The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it. John Ruskin View this quote
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love. John Ruskin
John Ruskin
Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality. John Ruskin
Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed. John Ruskin
Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions. John Ruskin
Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. John Ruskin
Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house. John Ruskin
Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world. John Ruskin
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. John Ruskin
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities. John Ruskin
Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low. John Ruskin
English writer and art critic
February 8th, 1819 - January 20th, 1900