770 Quotes by John Ruskin

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

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.