Quotes by Ruskin, John

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant we >>

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shal >>

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we sp >>

Quotations about Trains

That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout >>

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the >>

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. I >>

Along the iron veins that traverse the frame of our country, beat and flow the fiery pulses of its exertion, hotter and faster every hour. All vitality is concentrated through those throbbing arteries into the central cities; the country is passed over like a green sea by narrow bridges, and we are thrown back in continually closer crowds on the city gates.

Ruskin, John