Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet?
Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure?
Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet—
Fail, Sun and Breath!—yet, for thy peace, she shall endure. - John Ruskin. View more images...

The best things in life aren't things. - John Ruskin. View more images...

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change. - John Ruskin. View more images...

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. - John Ruskin. View more images...

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. - John Ruskin. View more images...

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin. View more images...

No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy. - John Ruskin. View more images...

It 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 Ruskin. View more images...

There is no wealth but life. - John Ruskin. View more images...

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength. - John Ruskin. View more images...

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches. - John Ruskin. View more images...

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. - John Ruskin. View more images...