John Ruskin

One can’t be angry when one looks at a penguin.

John Ruskin

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

John Ruskin

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

John Ruskin

Order and system are nobler things than power.

John Ruskin

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

John Ruskin

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

John Ruskin

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

John Ruskin

Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.

John Ruskin

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

John Ruskin

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

John Ruskin