Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: beauty external appearances

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
John Ruskin "Early Light," InTouch Magazine, May 2001.
Categories: humility integrity character

Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin
Categories: morality

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
John Ruskin
Categories: possessions

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
John Ruskin
Categories: work

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 Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
Categories: work