... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
John RuskinWhy is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.
John RuskinThe time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.
John RuskinIt is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
John RuskinThe truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.
John Ruskin