John Ruskin

“Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.”

“Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.”

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

“To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty”

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.”

“Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.”

“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.”

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

“The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”

“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.”

“Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.”

“A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.”

“the true knowledge is disciplined and tested knowledge,—not the first thought that comes, so the true passion is disciplined and tested passion,—not the first passion that comes. The first that come are the vain, the false, the treacherous; if you yield to them they will lead you wildly and far, in vain pursuit, in hollow enthusiasm, till you have no true purpose and no true passion left. Not that any feeling possible to humanity is in itself wrong, but only wrong when undisciplined.”

“To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.”

“No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.”

“He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”

“Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.”

“When we build, let us think that we build for ever.”

“A book worth reading is worth buying.”

“Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.”