John Ruskin
  • Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

  • A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.

  • Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

  • It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

  • No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.