When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, right that we should look for, and hasten, so far as in us lies, the coming of the day… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
