1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
John Ruskin – [Architecture]
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
John Ruskin – [Quality]
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
John Ruskin – [Gambling]
You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.
John Ruskin – [Girls]
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
John Ruskin – [Peace]
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
John Ruskin – [Books and Reading]
Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
John Ruskin – [Individuality]
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