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Quotes from John Ruskin

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
~ John Ruskin
... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
~ John Ruskin
The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
~ John Ruskin
Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.
~ John Ruskin
A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.
~ John Ruskin
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
~ 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
It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
~ John Ruskin
People cannot live by lending money to one another.
~ John Ruskin
What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
~ John Ruskin
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
~ John Ruskin
Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."
~ John Ruskin
What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do
~ John Ruskin
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
~ John Ruskin
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
~ John Ruskin
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
~ John Ruskin
Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.
~ John Ruskin
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
~ John Ruskin
It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.
~ John Ruskin
I would rather teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love nature, than teach the looking at nature that they may learn to draw.
~ John Ruskin
Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.
~ John Ruskin
The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
~ John Ruskin
The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form.
~ John Ruskin
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~ John Ruskin