All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.
John RuskinTags: books classics popularity
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.
John RuskinCookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.
John RuskinTags: food
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
John RuskinTags: literature
The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John RuskinWhen you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.
John RuskinNothing can be beautiful which is not true.
John RuskinThere is no wealth but life.
John RuskinTags: life-lessons greed
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John RuskinEducation...is a painful, continual and difficult work to be done in kindness, by watching, by warning,... by praise, but above all -- by example.
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