770 Quotes by John Ruskin

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.