Quotes by Ruskin, John

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to >>

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it witho >>

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copie >>

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear >>

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good d >>

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

Ruskin, John