Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
John Ruskin
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
John Ruskin
Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
John Ruskin
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
John Ruskin
Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
John Ruskin
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
John Ruskin
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin
What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
John Ruskin
Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
John Ruskin
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.