Quotes by John Ruskin

“He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”

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

“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”

“For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.”

“If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses”