John Ruskin

To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting admiration, is the surest way of ending in total extinction.

John Ruskin

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

John Ruskin

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

John Ruskin

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

John Ruskin

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

John Ruskin

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

John Ruskin

When you pay too much, you lose a little money – that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

John Ruskin

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

John Ruskin

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

John Ruskin

You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

John Ruskin