To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

— John Ruskin

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meritorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

— John Ruskin

We are always in these days endeavoring to separate intellect and manual labor; we want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense.

— John Ruskin

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

— John Ruskin

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

— John Ruskin

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

— John Ruskin

When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that make it sweet.

— John Ruskin

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

— John Ruskin

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

— John Ruskin

When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.

— John Ruskin