Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. — 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
