Quotes by John Ruskin

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.””

“Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.””

“The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.””

“All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.””

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing youbought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. Thecommon law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting alot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is wellto add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you willhave enough to pay for something better.””

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.””

“A book worth reading is worth owning.””

“Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.””

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.””

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.””

“No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.””

“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.””

“Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.””

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.””