770 Quotes by John Ruskin

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. Nothing that lives is or can be rigidly perfect.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

It is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be happy; and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life.

You bring up your girls as if they were meant for sideboard ornaments, and then complain of their frivolity?

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition the laws of death.

And whether consciously or not, you must be in many a heart enthroned: queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond, which bows itself, and will forever bow, before the myrtle crown, and the stainless scepter of womanhood.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather. only different kinds of good weather.