Quotes by Ruskin, John

I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up >>

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on t >>

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. >>

Quotations about Home

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples >>

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners. >>

Our country is where ever we are well off. >>

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.

Ruskin, John