John Ruskin

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness…

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

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and…

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil…

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

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that…

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and…

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no…

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating there is…

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal…

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases…

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth…

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely…

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has…

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the…