Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John Ruskin

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
John Ruskin

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
John Ruskin

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
John Ruskin

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John Ruskin

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
John Ruskin

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
John Ruskin

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
John Ruskin

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
John Ruskin

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

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.
John Ruskin

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John Ruskin

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
John Ruskin

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
John Ruskin

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
John Ruskin

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.
John Ruskin