John Ruskin Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.”

“There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.”

“To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.”

“Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.”

“One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.”

“Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.”

“An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.”

“Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.”

“All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.”

“The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.”